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Summary: Fabulous Spy
Review: ISBN: 0142401021
Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz may be the third book in the series but is not number three. This one would win the gold out of the Alex Rider books. You're probably thinking that Alex Rider goes on another mission for MI6 like the other two. Well, that's only partially correct. Because he teams up with two CIA agents from the U.S.A. to stop some crazy guy, Sarov, with a nuclear weapon.
I really liked this book because there was a lot of action and I also like James Bond movies. If you have read any of the Alex Rider books or Spy High you will defiantly love this book.
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Summary: mike's review
Review: SETTING
Skeleton Key, Cuba, Wimbelton, and Russia. In the present day.
Characters
Alex Rider- a teenager secret agent.
Carver and Troy- two agents on the mission with Alex.
The General-a crazy man with a plan to blow up the world.
Conrade-the general's partener.
Opinion
This book had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. It was a great book that kept me guessing the entire time. It is recommended for you to read.
Conflicts
External
Alex vs. Shark
Alex vs. Conrade
Alex vs. the Genreal
Troy vs. Conrade
Carver vs. Conrade
The two men vs. the alligators
Internal
Alex vs. self about going after Troy and Carver
General vs. self about killing Alex
Plot
Alex is a regular boy... until he finds out that the U.S. govornment needs him to save the world. Alex then goes through a sieries of adventures. Once in Cuba, Alex is almost killed by a shark, until the shark is caught in a trap. Conrade then captures Alex, and is within seconds of killing him, when the General saves Alex. After this, the Geneal wants Alex to take the place of his son, who died in the years past. Alex refuses and makes an attempt to call the police, but is stopped by a security guard. He explains the whole thing to the security guard. The security guard tells the Russian govornment, who responds by sending troops. Eventually it comes down to a showdown between Alex, and the crazy general over the nuclear bomb switch. Who won...you will have to read the book.
About Anthony Horowitz
-born in London, England in 1955
-went to a boarding school
-started writing at the age of 22 and was published at 23
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Summary: Good adventure, falls short of other 2 books
Review: Skeleton Key is a good book. I enjoyed reading it. The book has a lot of suspense and action.
But I felt this book fell short of the previous two. It didn't seem to have as much action as Point Blank. The ending definately fell flat.
Sarov was bent on making Russia a world power, but he killed himself because he had formed an attachment to Alex.
Alex looked like Sarov's son and Sarov couldn't bare that Alex didn't think of him as a father figure. The ending definately could have been better.
It's worth the read, but Stormbreaker and Point Blank had much better story lines, so I advise reading those first.
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Summary: Sports Illistrated
Review: Skeleton Key is about a boy named Alex Rider who saves the world. I thought this was a really good book. It was filled with many adventures and many life threatening events. Alex has to save the world with only a few small gadgets.
This book is a sequel to two previous books in the series. In each of the books Alex saves the world through very exciting and entertaining adventures. Since this was the third book in the series, it was obvious that Alex would once again win over his enemies. Overall, I thought this was a very well written book.
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Summary: skeleton keys
Review: Skeleton key is full of gut busting action like when alex rider a young secret agent blows up a boat of a arms dealer. It is full ofdeath and suspens like when alexes cia partners het killed by giant freak stalagtites that are rigged to kill any one who comes in to a cave. Between the awsome cadgets and awsome excitement. It was a very good book.
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Summary: Skeleton Key
Review: Skeleton Key was a very good action or mystery book. Alex Rider a junior secret agent really made it like a young James Bond book. It provided excitement and non-stop action. It was in my opinion the best book out of the first two of this series of Alex Rider novels. This book was a good book and i would recomend it.
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Summary: A Suspenseful Thriller for anyone of any age-
Review: Skeleton Key, the sequel to Point Blank (2002) and Stormbreaker (2001), it is even better than both of its predecessors. A perfect combination of suspense, surprise, and humor, this book is likley to entertain all who read it. Alex Rider, a seemingly normal, fourteen-year-old boy (Except that he is a spy working for M16.), goes on a journey to Cayo Esqueleto. Skeleton Key. It is on the coast of Cuba. He is told by M16's Alan Blunt that he is just going on a vacation there because he got into trouble with a gang in China after beating up two of their members at Wimbledon. He highly doubts this, and for good reason. His partners, his disguise mom and dad, give him a Gameboy Advance to play on the plane. When he finds a geiger counter (a nuclear weapon finding tool) in the gameboy, he gets suspicious. When he knows what is going on he goes with them to an underwater cave called Devil's Chimney that is a secret passage to the "Golden House" (Casa De Oro)where the villan, General Alexei Sarov lives. His "parents" soon find out that it's not so "secret" when they find a great white shark and fake staglamites and stalacimites that shred people to nothing and leads to a bone-crunching garbage disposal. Alex follows but narrowly escapes. He is then taken captive by General Sarov and figures out that he is like Vladmir, Sarov's son who died in war at the age of 16, from what Sarov describes. Sarov then wants to adopt Alex. While stuck in a mansion full of guards and a bodyguard named Conrad just waiting to shred him to pieces, not to mention a dangerous, yet caring, madman with a nuclear bomb and a plan to blow up a whole region of the world. An adventure that spreads all over the world, from the streets of England, to the hot beaches of Miami, all the way to the frozen tundra of the northernmost parts of Russia. Read the book to find out the ending to this story, because I don't like to spoil endings.
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Summary: The best book in a brilliant series...
Review: Skeleton Key, the sequel to Stormbreaker and Point Blanc, is surely the best book in this gripping teen spy series. Before you read it, however, make sure you read the others first so as to understand the story.Just a month after his previous adventure at an exclusive school in the French Alps, sixteen-year-old Alex Rider is attempting to return to a normal life in London. But this is a wish quickly forgotten as an M16 agent recruits him for a mission during a school soccer game.
He is soon over in the USA, and taking on the role of the son of two up-tight and by-the-book CIA officers. Together, they must infiltrate the home of an ex-Russian army commander. Trouble is, his house is an island in Cuba and Americans aren't exactly welcome in that part of the world. Armed with some outrageous and extremely useful gadgets disguised as toys, Rider must soon try to win the trust of the Russian on his own, but finds himself in a seemingly losing battle against the rich and powerful man. Alex discovers the Russian's deadly plot to take over the world, but will a young boy be able to stop him? A terrific book that will having you struggle to put it down as you dive into the world of international spies, crazy military men and truly gripping suspense. I gave this book 5 stars, and it deserves 6, so read it now and find out why!
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Summary: My review
Review: Skeleton Key
Skeleton Key is a sequel to the action books "Stormbreaker" and "Point Blank". Now Alex (a 14 year old boy) is on another adventure. Here is why you should read it.
The action never stops in this book. Toward the beginning Alex was almost hit by a forklift. And toward the middle of the book, Alex is almost crushed to death is a sugar factory. In Skeleton Key there are more twists and turns than the other books in the series. In this one Alex teams up with two CIA agents. There is nothing like that in the others. Also, Skeleton Key is about 75-100 pages longer than "Stormbreaker" or "Point Blank". This makes more room for gunmen, killer sharks, special weapons, assassins, and more time to save the world from the Russian general Sarov and his assistant Conrad.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes "Stormbreaker" and "Point Blank". And to anyone who likes spy novels.
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Summary: Skeleton Key
Review: Skeleton Key
By:Anthony Horowitz
Reviewed by: S. Kim
Period:P.3
This adventure series is about a fourteen year-old boy, who happens to be a spy for the british government agency, M16. In this book he prevents a Russian military leader from activating a nuclear bomb, strong enough to infect all of Europe. This military leader is named Sarov, and he wants revenge or so, because he had lost his only son, and wants to make Russia #1 again.
I have enjoyed all of the Alex Rider adventures, because I feel suspense and other books don't satisfy me as well as this one.The one thing that I wonder about is that there wasn't a preview of the next book!I still like it, but is this the end? I hope not, because I want to find out what happens to Alex Rider.
The one thing I dislike about the book is that I have to wait so long just to read the next book.By the time I read this book I have waited for about two months!That is probably the only thing that I dislike about this book.
My favorite part of the book is when Alex fights against Sarov's henchman Conrad, who isn't at all handsome, but can make a deadly nuclear bomb.The suspense I get from reading this book is intense, and it makes me read more and more even I have to go to bed. The part I dislike about this book is when Sarov recaptures Alex, who almost escaped and tried to call for help.That made me dumbfound.Overall, I believe that this is a good action book and whoever enjoys actio should read it.
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