There’s a scene in which Alex is climbing in a confined space, and there was a moment during the description of it where I actually paused to note it with just ‘fuck’ because it was making me genuinely anxious and claustrophobic to think about it in too much detail. “But frankly I’d prefer to kiss the horse.”Īnthony Horowitz kills it again with the vivid, atmospheric horror. I listened to the first half of this on audiobook while I was processing delivery at work, and two of the Alex-lines were so memorable to me that I stopped what I was doing and picked up my phone ready to mark them for quoting.
We get two pre-mission scrapes in this one, and these might be my favourites? I love the Skeleton Key mis-adventure, but Alex has two of my favourite moments in Point Blanc. I low key think this might be better than Stormbreaker? Alex had to actually rely on himself in this one, rather than the Ian Rider last minute saves that happened a little too often in Stormbreaker. When Alex finds the truth, villains find him and he has to get out of the mountains or die trying. Stellenbosch are the only teachers, and the students aren’t rebellious at all – just eerily, identically obedient. When two men are assassinated after sending their rebellious teenage sons to an elite school, MI6 calls on Alex again for a spy job that only a 14 year old could manage.
Alex saved the UK’s schoolchildren from an awful fate, and Yassen’s advice is to say no the next time MI-6 come asking for him. Herod Sayle is dead, killed by a Yassen ex machina at the very last moment and saving Alex’s life. We’re still just beginning! At the end of Stormbreaker, Alex is thinking his life is going to go back to normal (😬 sorry kiddo, your trouble is just beginning) while Blunt has realised that Alex is a one of a kind type of agent and he can’t afford to let him go. Rating: 4 stars! Alex Rider series so far: As always with mid-series books, here be spoilers for any earlier entries to the series. Partly because it’s early series so it’s more of a temptation to pick up, partly because of *late series spoiler* and partly because some of the hijinks Alex gets up to in this book are just TOO good not to reread. We’re definitely still in the ‘I can probably describe most of this book word for word’ part of the series. “You’ve already said you’re going to kill me,” Alex said, “but I didn’t think that meant you were going to bore me to death.”īook two! I probably haven’t read Point Blanc quite as many times as I’ve read Stormbreaker, but it’s pretty close.
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