Snakehead (Alex Rider)

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I also think that this one had some good commentary happening surrounding government and some other issues in relation with the government. The author tried to make it personal by bringing Ash into the mix but I don't think that really added anything-Horowitz needs to go in a new direction with Alex. Snakehead is the seventh book in the Alex Rider series written by Anthony Horowitz. It stars Alexander "Alex" Rider, who is a teenaged MI6 agent. I've been making a couple of comments throughout my re-reading of this series, calling out problematic aspects of the previous books, but for the most parts I've been thinking that there are moments in the series that just haven't aged well, not that anything has been . But this one just crossed a lot of lines for me.

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This one took a little while to get going with the 'straightforward' and 'minimal risk' part of the My dad was a spy. My uncle was a spy. And now it turns out I've got a godfather who's a spy. You have to admit, it runs in the family." another Alex Rider book is done and usually at this point i would be finished a series but not this one i still have another four books in this series to go until i finish it.

Alex is a rich kid from London, there is absolutely no way anyone would believe he was a poor refugee.) In 7th grade, my friends were reading series of Alex Rider, so I felt that it was going to be an interesting series. This is the 7th book of the series and it is called Snakehead .

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A miserably unhappy and overweight child, Anthony had nowhere to turn for solace. "Family meals," he recalls, "had calories running into the thousands…. I was an astoundingly large, round child…." At the age of eight he was sent off to boarding school, a standard practice of the times and class in which he was raised. While being away from home came as an enormous relief, the school itself, Orley Farm, was a grand guignol horror with a headmaster who flogged the boys till they bled. "Once the headmaster told me to stand up in assembly and in front of the whole school said, 'This boy is so stupid he will not be coming to Christmas games tomorrow.' I have never totally recovered." To relieve his misery and that of the other boys, he not unsurprisingly made up tales of astounding revenge and retribution.Alex finally got his hands on a gun, which was refreshing. But..guess what? He missed, lol. Not that it sonds unlikely. This is kinda a weird complaint to add on here, but they are told that they don't need to worry about the body paint (ugh) washing off unless they bathe (and obviously refugees never wash, at least not in the Alex Rider universe, so that's not a problem...), but they specifically end up soaking wet multiple times. Alex swims through a river, ends up drenched in rain, and I understand that it's not the same as scrubbing yourself with soap, but you would think that at some point he worries about it washing off and at least tries to look himself in a mirror? No, it's never brought up. It's just poor writing. Alex seemed to be coming around to MI6. I really thought he was warming to the idea of becoming a full-time operative-he was anxious about returning to school (a place he OBVIOUSLY doesn't belong). The author undoes this good work at the end of the book as he enjoys school once more.