Stormbreaker (Alex Rider #1)
By Anthony Horowitz
Publication Year: 2000
Type: Fiction
Genre: spy, action
Read on 2020-01-31
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★★★★☆
So cinematic, so cool, spy goodness with no extra fat or fluff, just a preternaturally talented teen spy, shady spy agency, some of the coolest action sequences put to the written word, garishly hateful yet trim villains, high stakes world-saving hijinks, bulls-eye set-ups and pay-offs, sensational sensorial action-driven writing, and a complicated series-spanning teen spy/hired assassin rivalry.
I was inspired to re-read this series after I heard about the Alex Rider TV show coming out soon. I already know it won’t live up to the books but that’s okay, I’m just happy to come back to these books and find them just as good as I remember from childhood (I think 11-12). The few references to technology, now dated as this was first published in 2000, are also super nostalgic. Looking back this series probably singlehandedly cultivated my love of spy action movies - it somehow reads exactly like the best of the best James Bond/Mission Impossible type of movie, action sequences and all. Can’t wait to read the rest.
See me talk about re-reading the Alex Rider series in this video!
