Never Say Die (Alex Rider)

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Once again amid races, chases, hails of bullets, and increasingly spectacular explosions, the teenage James Bond pulls off one awesome feat of derring-do after another. [This] fresh caper . . . roars along to a (naturally) explosive climax.”— Booklist I loved that you do see the effects of what's happened in the past on Alex in this book. It's good though painful to see him struggling as it goes to show that being a spy, at such a young age at that, isn't all fun and games. It can and will mess you up.

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The last thing I'll say is that at book 5 it's great to read about how Alex gets himself out of incredibly difficult situations. But at book 11, my belief can no longer be suspended. There is so much plot lines and new characters always thrown into these books and i'm always excited to see where Anthony will take Alex next because every single book there is always multiple countries it's like i've gone on these adventures myself. Also just when i think that there couldn't be anymore for Alex to do there is a new threat and a new place to visit and i hope one day that there will be one mission that will be the end of it for Alex. I'll probably add some spoiler-stuff to this review later, but for now I'm going to leave it at that.Nice addition to the Alex Rider series. So glad the author decided to continue with Alex's story, and from the way this one ended, there'll be a twelfth book coming too. When people think about undercover spies and secret agents, they usually imagine how cool it is for them to go on classified missions and save the world. Unfortunately, for Alex Rider, being recruited by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) at a young age was not so cool.

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The positives is that it's still a great book series for a younger audience. It's well written and very well researched. I started reading the Alex Rider books when I was 12. I'm 25 now. The series was over but then Anthony Horowitz began writing an Alex Rider short story which ended up turning into this eleventh book.As I previously mentioned, this book does not add anything new to the series, which made me seriously question its existence. This was particularly frustrating to me since I know Horowtiz is capable of doing so, as he previously demonstrated with my favorite Alex rider installment - Scorpia. In this installment, we saw Alex act on his frustrations with MI6 and flirt with the dark side. That was a highlight for me because it was showing a different side of a character that felt natural and true to the progression of the over-arching plot. Never say die does none of that, it could easily be the second book in the series (instead of a staggering number 11).

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I liked this Alex Rider book, although at 1 point I thought Alex was going crazy as he kept thinking he was seeing things, a good story, I really like the Alex Rider and Jason Steed series. It was so weird seeing Alex himself actually want to put himself in danger to find his friend and person who he's only cared for. Alex is such a determined character and the character growth has been huge even in a short amount of time. However with Alex's other missions this one seems the most personal one yet and he doesn't really think a lot of the time and mask rash decisions which could have almost got him killed. The novel wasn't flawless though. I'm not sure if this was written more rushed, dumbed down to introduce new readers to the world of Alex Rider, or if I've become more perceptive over the years but some of the writing was unnecessarily repetitive and distracting, for example the constant mentions of "your uncle, Ian Rider", after the first or second time "Ian Rider" or "Ian" would've sufficed, we know who he is by now! I thought Sabina was not very supportive of Alex, she is supposed to be his GF? Now she has someone new?The last of scorpia's people are finally taken down however there is a new threat coming and i hope that they aren't as bad as scorpia but i have a feeling that Alex's journey isn't over just yet. Mrs Jones has hinted to Alex that he will pretty much have to be ready to be used by MI6 once again and put his life on the line for them.

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Anthony Horowitz, OBE is ranked alongside Enid Blyton and Mark A. Cooper as "The most original and best spy-kids authors of the century." (New York Times). Anthony has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider books, he is also the writer and creator of award winning detective series Foyle’s War, and more recently event drama Collision, among his other television works he has written episodes for Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid. Anthony became patron to East Anglia Children’s Hospices in 2009. I always believed that Anthony was a horror writer, and didn't realise that he did YA books, nor action books.One of the reasons I love Alex Rider so much is because of Alex's desire to help people. He wants a normal life, but at the same time it's quite clearly seen in the earlier books when Alex gets recruited by MI6 that he can't NOT help. If he has the opportunity to stop something bad from happening, he'll do whatever he can. Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments