This is the second book in the Young Bond series and it is amazing. It starts out once again in the rich England school, Eton. James Bond has joined the Danger Society, which is a club of boys that all go to Eton that sneak out of their dormotories after they are allowed to which could get them suspended, expelled or even arrested. One night, they are found, or rather one of the teachers at Eton sees a boy going out of his dormitory, and follows him until he arrives at their meeting place. They all race back to their dorms, and only one of them gets caught. The next day, one of the members in the Danger Society steals, or actually just takes the keys from James to the sports car that James's Uncle Max gave to him before he died. James chases after the boy, and finds out that his father is dead, and his sister is missing after their boat was attacked by pirates while they were on a cruise. He remembers the night that he was running away from the teacher after the Danger Society was discovered, and when he hid in the roman church, and heard two men speaking Latin, and hears them say something about the Milleneria, a organization started when Rome was having civil war with itself. The boy that had lost his father and sister then said something about them and how they were suspected of the attack. James, for the rest of Blood Fever, is chasing after the Roman Millenara, a society believed to have died out 3000 years ago. It all leads up to the mysterious Count Ugo Carnifex, who may be behind it all. This thrilling spy story makes you feel as if you are the one being shot and chased at, not James Bond.
So far this is the last book to come out in the Alex Rider series, but I do believe that there will be another one. It starts out with the now famed Alex Rider flying down from the sky in space capsule that brought him to Ark Angel, the space hotel, just minutes before it blew up. He is picked up by an aircraft carrier, with many bewildered men and women, who were expecting an adult. Alex is taken to Australia, which is the closest continent from his splashdown. He is almost killed there from the "practice" of an actual war sequence. It turns out that that was just all of a test to see if he was good enough for the mission that Australia wanted him for. The only reason that Alex ends up saying yes to the offer is because he will be working with Ash, his godfather. He is the only one that knows a lot about Alex's parents. They are sent to Bangkok, to research the Snakeheads, one of the most powerful gangs in the entire world. The catch is, they are working with Scorpia. Alex does not know this and that is why he says that he will go with Ash. In Bangkok, Alex is forced to be smuggled, under disguise, because apparently, the thing that Snakehead gets the most money from is smuggling people. But things start to go wrong, and Alex must fight for his life and for others, because he is the only one that can stop Scorpia again before they kill thousands of people with a tsunami. This is a extremely exciting book, and it is to die for.
Alex Rider is just recovering from a near fatal assassin bullet sent from Scorpia after he wrecked their entire operation. the only thing that saved him is that he was stepping off of a curb, so the bullet did not go through his heart, but some minor veins above it. He is recovering in a hospital right next to one of the worlds richest mens son, Paul Drevin. The boys become good friends, and everything is going great, Alex is getting better quickly, when one night, a group of terrorists come to the hospital and Alex overhears them saying to the door guard that they are here to kidnap Paul Drevin, so Alex quickly runs back to his room and switches the number card on the door with Paul's so that they come into his room. What they don't know, though is that instead of a sleeping boy, they will find a crouching first dan black belt ready to kick their butts. Alex pulls off numerous stunts and karate moves to subdue them, and almost has all of them knocked out when the driver that brought the four terrorists there comes in and hits Alex on the back of the head. Alex wakes up and finds himself face to face with yet another spy mission. This time, he has to stop one of the most respected and richest man in the world from blowing up all of Washington D.C. with a floating outer space hotel. This book is one of the most thrilling books that I think I will ever read and I will always pick it up again when I have nothing else to read. I garrantee instant happiness from this book.
Scorpia is the fifth book in the Alex Rider series. Alex has decided to take a vacation away from Britan, to take his mind off all the terrible things that he has been put through. Yassen, with his dying breath, told Alex to go to Venice, and find Scorpia, a very terrible group of people that hired and trained men and women like Yassen, people that grew up to be terrorists, assassins, and just people that had one goal. Kill for the money. Alex does not fully believe him, but Yassen said that Alex's dad was an agent for Scorpia. He also says that MI6 were the ones that killed his father, and that his dad and mom did not really die in a plane crash, that was all just a lie devised by MI6. It just so happens that one of the few friends that Alex has made in school has invited him to Venice to stay with his cousin. He accepts the offer and when he gets to Venice, has a wonderful time and almost completely forgets bout Scorpia and all of his MI6 troubles. Then, one of the days that him and his friend are touring the city of Venice, Alex spots a small boat that has an engraved silver scorpion on the side. He follows it on a hunch, and it leads to a huge wonderful waterside house that is supposed to be having a huge party that night. Alex then, with the help of his puzzled friend distracts the guards so that he can sneak into the building. He discovers that this house is the lair of Julia Rothman, a big Scorpia leader, with a plan that will kill more than half of the children in Britan. He barely escapes with his life, and races to see if he can stop her, with the weight of thousands of children's lives at stake. This is one of my personal favorites in the Alex Rider series, so go power through all of the other ones so that you can read this one.
First of all I am very sorry that I have not been able to add to the blog for three days because I was very busy. I will make sure that it does not happen again, and I will have an entry for every new day from now on, with the exception of the weekends, and I will try to have the blog posted by at least 10:00 in the morning, again, I am very sorry about the delay. On to the book. Eagle Strike is, as you should have figured out, the fourth book in the Alex Rider series. It starts out with Alex having fun in the sun with a friend he made at the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Sabina is a lovely girl, and Alex is more than happy that she invited him to come and surf on the beach with her and her parents at the little cottage that her small family rents every year. Alex is having the time of his life, and has almost even forgot his troubles with MI6 and his teenage spy life. One of the days, Alex is relaxing on the beach when he sees a pretty yaght pull into the harbor. It is a very modern boat, compared to the old town. it weighs anchor, and out steps Yassen Gregorovich. Now for those of you that have not read the first Alex Rider book, Stormbreaker, this is a new character to you. Let me explain him a little bit. Yassen is an assassin. He is paid to kill people, and he does his job well. Yassen killed Alex Rider's uncle. Alex knows this and follows Yassen into the town, and oversees him having a private meeting with one of the world's biggest celebrity's, Damian Cray. Alex vows to get revenge on Yassen and that means to figure out what Damian and Yassen have to do with each other. That day, Sabina's cottage blow's up with her father inside of it. He is not killed, thankfully, but he was meant to be and Alex knows that it was not just a gas leak as the police say. He finds a scrap of burnt paper in the wreckage, and figures out that Sabina's dad was writing a story for the newspaper about how Damian Cray was having mysterious meetings, and why he was not explaining the places he was traveling to with no apparent reason. This story has many twists and turns, and it turns out that Damian Cray wants to kill more than one million people, and Alex is the only one that can stop him. There is just one problem. This time, MI6 does not believe that Damian Cray is a bad person, so Alex is completely on his own. No gadgets, and if he were to die, no one would know.
Alex Rider is enjoying his summer out of school at the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, working as a ball boy, when he is sucked yet again into a spy job. Only this time, he discovers the gang that is trying to rig the tennis tournament with a drug in the water aquifyer that makes all the tennis players who drink it drowsy and tired. Alex tails the man that he saw messing with the water, and finds out that he has a tatooed red circle on his left forearm. As he stalks the man all the way to the junk room, all of a sudden a huge bulldozer trys to run him over! He survives and the red circle man gets locked in a freezer with some help of Alex's black belt kung fu moves. A short time later, MI6 contacts Alex and tells him that the guy that he trapped in the freezer was a man in a gang where if one of them is hurt, all of them are hurt, and they will hunt him forever to get their revenge. So MI6 sends Alex to Skeleton Key, on what is supposed to be a routine observation mission. When he gets there, Alex finds that he may be on the front lines of world war 3 when he finds the geiger counter in his "parents" bag. He asks the spy's that are supposed to be his parents what it is for, and they say that they lied to him, that they are actually searching for an atom bomb. With plenty of action and an awesome spy feeling from begining to end, this story makes you feel like your an actual spy!
Point Blank is the second installment in the Alex Rider series. It is a wonderful sequel and is just as good as the first one. No wait, just as great as the first one. But, I have a warning, if you have not read the first one, then this one may be very confusing, as will the blog, so please read the first book before reveiwing this blog or any others in this series. Read them all in the order, and they will be wonderful. Now to the book. An investigation of the deaths of many important influential men leads MI6 (the spy company that Alex Rider was forced to work for) to an elite boarding school for the rich and powerful, and who would be better for the spy job than Alex Rider, teen spy? Alex is quickly shipped away to Point Blank, under the ego of Alex Fiend a rebel boy in his teen years. When he arrives, Alex finds that this boarding school is in a cross of types, one, the rowdy teenagers that have only been there a few weeks and hate it there, and two, boys that used to be like the others, but seemingly overnight, have turned into order-obeying, obedient boys. There's also one catch. These "new" boys are exactly alike, they eat the same have the same clothes, even talk the same when just a few weeks earlier, they were shoplifting teenagers. To Alex it seems as if they were even brainwashed, or cloned. Well it turns out that that isn't so far from the truth. In this excellent 2nd story to the Alex Rider series, there are breath-taking stunts, death defying moments, and plenty of shoot-outs. This is the ultimant teen spy series, so go out there and buy this book!! <=)
These are the covers of the Alex Rider series.
I know that I keep jumping from series to series, but I want to tell you that it is only because I have read #1 and #2 of the Young Bond Series, so I still have to read the rest of that series before I can post them up. Here, on the other hand is a series that is one of my very favorites, right up there with the Pendragon books, and I have read the whole series, so I will get number 1 to 4 at the least before I go back to the Pendragon books. This is the series of Alex Rider, a young teenager that has always kept to himself, a quiet boy. His whole life was spent with his mysterious uncle because his parents died in a plane crash just weeks after his birth. His uncle claimed to have a job with the local bank, but was always away in remote places on "business trips" and often came back with broken bones and injuries, "accidents" he always called them. Then one day, Alex wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his house telling the housekeeper that his uncle was killed in a car crash. He goes to the auto wrecking center after seeing their van at his uncle's funarel and finds that his uncle was not killed in a car crash, because there are bullet holes all along the side f his car. Full of twists and turns, gadgets and gizmo's, this is a James Bond book for those who aren't so squimish, and it is an amazing start to an awesome series.
This is a collection of all the young bond series covers numbers 1 - 4 and when the cover of the fifth and last young bond series book cover is released, I will have it posted immediatly.
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nice book I love it I am almost about to do a blog on It also! =P read more
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