Best of the series yet! (Snakehead - Anthony Horowitz)

Member Name: Markatron

Product:	Snakehead - Anthony Horowitz
Date:	27/05/09 (20 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Everything about this book is superb

Disadvantages: Quite expensive

"Snakehead" is the seventh, and as of yet latest, Alex Rider book by Anthony Horowitz. Having read the first six, I had high expectations of this book, and it delivered with a better quality than I could have ever expected.

Once again, just when you think Alex Rider is relaxing back into a normal teenage life, he is thrown into a new world and ends up working for ASIS in Australia. Here, he meets up with Ash, his father's friend, and they go out on a mission together into the criminal underworld of South-East Asia.

This book is the best in my opinion for the number of twists in the plotline, the biggest of all coming close to the end. Throughout the book, I was totally entranced by Horowitz's clever and action-packed writing. This book has 398 pages, and I was not bored for a single one of them.

How Horowitz gets all of his creative ideas is beyond me, because some of the ideas in this book are simply outstanding. As clues are developed throughout the story, we realise towards the end that the biggest twist of all is yet to come. The book contains moments of excitement and suspense at the same time as moments of extreme sadness. This, to me, is what makes this book the best of the series so far.

There is a clever contrast here to in the last book. Where in the last book, the villain seemed like a nice kind of guy, here, the villain is pure evil. We see this from the start, and just when we think we know everything, we realise that the villain who has been trying to kill Alex is in fact the person who we least expect.

The unexpected is what makes this series of books one of the best I have ever read. I could not have predicted any of the numerous twists and turns that Horowitz dreamt up for this book, and I loved every single one of them.

This book retails at a maximum £12.99 (hardback). This is expensive, I know, so do try hunting around for better offers, and if you can, do buy more than one of this series in baulk, because they are all amazing reads. Perhaps if there are any parents out there, buy the book for your child's birthday. If they are between the ages of 10 and 20 I can pretty much guarantee that they will enjoy this book immensely. It is absolutely fascinating to read.

Summary: Absolutely stunning plot - I couldn't put it down