Ark Angel (Alex Rider Adventures)

I thought this book was really entertaining, it made u want 2 read on, and I read it on holiday and cudnt put it down until I had finished it!! I enjoy all of Anthony Horowitz's books, and I am really looking forward 2 the release of his new book somewhere around october.

I wud recommend this book if u enjoy spy, action or adventure books or if u enjoy the james bond books.

Running out of steam? (2/3 people found this helpful)

There is a level of political and economic sophistication in the book that impressed me, particularly in the motivation for Nikolei Drevin's crazy plot of destruction. I enjoyed the sideswipe that Horowitz is clearly taking at Russian oligarchs via the character (and the football game with Chelsea was a nice touch that advanced the plot). I did think that an opportunity was missed with Paul Drevin though - a lonely boy of Alex's age who can't meet his father's expectations and who really seemed to want Alex as a friend - I think he could have been used to draw a little more emotion out of Alex and made him more vulnerable, but equally, given the ending of the book I hope to see Paul Drevin again (although hopefully not as an enemy).

There is one large contrivance that sets up the end of the book, wherein Alex has to go up to the Ark Angel space station. I think that it would be obvious to any teenage boy reader that the situation is a set up and what the set up is, but Horowitz persists in going through the motions in a way that's actually tedious. A far better way of doing it would have been to acknowledge what's waiting for Alex up in space and give him the decision as to whether or not to go. But that's just me.

I do wonder if the series is perhaps running out of steam. As Horowitz acknowledges through the character, Alex is not going to be 14 forever and I do wonder if there's anything left for him to do - particularly given the amount of attention he's received during the series, which means he's no longer a secret spy any more. Horowitz has said that the series will stop when Rider reaches 15 and he'll get a happy ending. I hope there's enough steam left in the series for that.

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Ark Angel is perhaps the best book in the Alex Rider series. It is well written, and the plot is rather interesting providing a few little twists. However the 'business man-gone-bad' theme which is seen throughout the series is getting a little boring. The book isn't particularly long, even the slowest of readers will have it finished within a day. I would reccomend this book to the 10-16 age range, but i think it appeals to everyone.

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Ark Angel is one of the explosive Alex Rider, written by the fantastic Anthony Horowitz. An incredible tale when Alex goes to a multi-billionaire, Russian Nikolai Drevin. After just saving Drevin's son in hospital, from deadly eco-warriors, Drevin's reward for Alex was staying for two weeks in his mansion.
Half way through the holiday Drevin suddenly announce Ark Angel, world's first space hotel. But not all seems peaceful with Ark Angel.
Of course, no holiday for Alex could happen without MI6 charging in, telling Drevin's a criminal!! They figured out that on Ark Angel there will be a bomb, Pieces exploding all over Washington. An enthralling tale that, in the end, Alex goes into ...

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Before you read the review of ARK ANGEL, you need to take into account that this is the sixth book in the engaging, entertaining, action-packed adventure series starring Alex Rider. If you haven't read the first five books in the series, you'll probably want to do that before you pick up ARK ANGEL. Although it can stand on its own, you'll feel more in the loop by reading the previous books first.

ARK ANGEL picks up immediately where SCORPIA, book five, left off. At the end of that book, we saw Alex Rider on the ground, wounded by a sniper's bullet. For those who thought that Anthony Horowitz was planning to kill off our favorite young MI6 agent, please be assured that ARK ANGEL does not in any way imply dead. Alex is alive and relatively well, recuperating in an exclusive private hospital in London. The sniper's bullet missed his heart, instead bouncing off a rib and exiting out his arm. Now, as he's recovering in posh room nine of the hospital, he becomes friends with Paul. The same Paul that turns out to be the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world.

When Alex saves Paul during a kidnapping attempt, Nikolai invites Alex to finish his recuperation at his estate. Alex soon wonders at the wisdom of being in Drevin's company, however, when he learns that an eco-terrorist group known as Force Three has threatened not only the Drevin family, but the safety of the entire world.

Nikolai Drevin's latest project, Ark Angel, is in full swing. Designed to become the first ultimate luxury hotel in outer space, it contains everything the world's richest people could want. It's also, at least according to Force Three, a threat to the environment of Earth as we know it. Now the members of the terrorist group are out to stop Ark Angel from ever opening, and they'll do anything--and everything--they can to see their mission come to completion. Even if it means hurtling the hotel back through the atmosphere and onto Earth's surface.

ARK ANGEL is another action-adventure read that will keep you turning pages right through to the end. Alex Rider has come a long way since the fourteen-year old boy roped into complying with MI6, but there's part of him that's still determined to leave the spy organization for good. Yet he knows that his skills are needed, and the unending action of ARK ANGEL show in detail why that is. You won't go wrong with any of the books in the Alex Rider series, and I can say that I'm excited about the opening of the movie STORMBREAKER, the first Alex Rider adventure, which is in development now.

Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"

Ark Angel (Alex Rider Adventures)

Anthony Horowitz

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