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Originally Posted by pdurrant
So next up is Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz. The first of his Alex Rider YA novels, I bought this on 30 December 2013 for £0.99.
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Originally Posted by Yapyap
I rather enjoyed the entire Alex Rider series - it's one of those where, I think, one shouldn't attempt to think too hard and just relax and go with the (fast-paced and entertaining) flow. Sort of like with action movies.
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I can see what you mean about the Alex Rider books, at least judging by the first one. But it doesn't work for me. Some YA novels work well for adults too. This one, for me, didn't. It's not just the unlikelihood of Alex being used as an agent - one impossible thing I can easily accept from a book. It's that the entire situation he finds himself in, and all the characters in it are impossible and, what's worse, internally inconsistent. I might forgive it in a film where you can just sit back and enjoy the pictures. But not in a book. I'm glad I haven't bought any more of this series.
Next up:
The Shadow of the Lion by Mecedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer. I think I've read this before, in which case I'll be moving straight on to
This Rough Magic, the second in the series, or even
Much Fall of Blood, the third in the series, which I'm sure I haven;t read, as there was a seven year gap between the second and the third!