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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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.
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Makes sense, yes. For me, I think that was one of those series that I stumbled on at just the right moment - I was going through some really exhausting times at work and needed something that was fast-paced, easy to read, with lots of action, and required no thought at all, and I was happy enough to keep reading (while rolling my eyes a
lot).
Another time, in a different mood, I don't think I'd have been nearly as forgiving!