This book is a very sad book. So, if you’re the more emotional kind of person please do me a favour and keep a pack of tissues with you before you start reading. It all started in the small town of Winnipeg, Canada, where two kids Robert and Wazhashnoons (Bob and Rat) lived with their father (sadly their mother died in a car crash). They were like a normal family going to school and office, making friends and dancing to the latest rap music of the latest rapper, Ice. One thing about Rat was not normal -- she could make crazy predictions and she used to have fits which included spasms, saliva dripping from her mouth, etc. One day, she predicts that their dad is going to die (and her predictions are accurate because she once predicted that something bad would happen to her friend Felicia and the next day they came to know that Felicia had been strangled. Once, she predicted their dog was going to run away and the next day the dog was gone, it had left at night).
The day of Bob and Rat’s school play their dad did not attend the play and when they returned home -- lo and behold! Their dad was dead on the kitchen floor.
Bob and Rat didn’t break into tears because they weren’t the emotional type. Now they had to plan a trip to New York where they would find their uncle (Bob only agreed to the trip because he didn’t want to be put in a home). So, they started off by train to Toronto and started cycling their way to the American border. Now, Bob and Rat are on a trip where they make new friends like Tommy the hustler, Ice the rapper etc. On the way, they made a friend called Joey – a drug dealer – who took them to New York and promised Bob and Rat that he would return in a day or two after finishing his work, but Rat is eventually caught by the police and taken to a home.
So, now Bob, Joey, Tommy and Ice go to rescue Rat in New Jersey (where her home is). It turns out that the home is a very dangerous one and Ice and Tommy get badly hurt in a fight. Joey has found out about Bob and Rat’s uncle, who is the head of a company called Exocome. When they try to enter the office building the guards stop them and don’t believe that Bob and Rat are the nephew and niece of their boss, Jerome Debiller. So, Joey, Bob and Rat have to force their way in and Joey gets shot by a guard. Joey tells Bob and Rat to go on and find their uncle. Eventually, they find their uncle but at the same time Rat falls into psychological shock.
Bob is sixteen now and Ice was sentenced to six years in prison, Tommy and Joey are in hospital.
This book is actually very sad though in this review it may not seem so sad. This book is confusing, it’s hilarious and sad at the same time and that’s why this book is a good one and has become one of my favourites. But I think the author should not write such a such a sad book.
Are you a fourteen-year-old working for the British Secret Service? You mostly aren’t, but Alex Rider is not one of the ‘mostly aren’t’ kind of teenagers. For most of you who are not familiar with the Alex Rider series let me inform you, Alex Rider is a fourteen year old (now fifteen) who works for MI6 (a kind of police force). Alex has been sent on dangerous and deadly missions, but the book I am going to review is the most deadliest and dangerous of all, being the last in the series.
It all starts with the visit of Zeljan Kurst, the head of Scorpia, to the British museum in London. In case you don’t know what Scorpia is, it is a very dangerous organization which Alex has defeated twice in the past. Kurst was visiting the museum because the fourth richest man in the world (the fourth richest man in the book world, of course) had been invited him to a meeting. Scorpia being a very skilful organization, Yannis Ariston (the fourth richest man in the world) wants Kurst and his team to steal the Elgin marbles for him and return them to the Greeks because the British Government is not returning them (for more information on the Elgin marbles, please Google the topic). Kurst’s greed for money made him say yes, but afterwards Kurst started to doubt himself, so he set a new, skilful and intelligent person to the task of stealing the Elgin marbles.
Razim -- whom Kurst set to the task -- came up with a master plan that involved capturing the young secret agent Alex Rider and his clone Julius Grief (see the book Point Blanc). Actually, a spy cannot be below the age of 16, thus Alex Rider was a closely guarded secret as MI6 took him because he was too small to be suspected as a secret agent. Razim’s plan was to make MI6 send Alex on a mission, capture him and blackmail them by threatening to release his secret. Then MI6 would have to give Scorpia the Elgin marbles. To deal with Alex, Scorpia would then shoot the American Secretary of State and frame Alex for it.
Now, it’s up to Alex to save the American Secretary of State, the MI6 and defeat the hideous plot, but in this mission Alex’s loved ones will be in danger, in real danger.
Reading this book has been a real pleasure, when you read a page you feel like you are at the scene and are a part of the action; the book is so well written. If you don’t like the book you can see the first movie ‘Stormbreaker’, though I recommend you read the books first. I also think this book has one of the coolest covers. It looks deadly on a bookshelf.
