A.J. Ward

A.J. Ward
Skeleton Key
Anthony Horowitz
Realistic Fiction
Holiday
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Right now in the book Crawley is picking meeting Alex Rider at one of his soccer games. Alex Rider is a 14 year old MI6 secret agent. Crawley is also an MI6 (British Intelligence Agency) agent, but much older. Cawley is letting Alex know that they are going to send him on another mission. Alex is not exactly overjoyed, he wants to just live a normal life.

So far I think that the book is okay. I haven't read too much yet, but not a lot has happened. And when there was some action the author was kind of obscure and I didn't know what was really going on. I think that the book will get better though. Usually in these books they start off a little slow and then pick up as you get deeper into them.

A theme I have noticed so far in the book is betrayal. In the first chapter the author started the book by giving you a scenario that seems unrelated to the real story but ends up tying it all together. In the beginning to men fly to a remote island to drop off radioactive bomb grade uranium. After they have delivered it their plane mysteriously doesn't take off and instead as if by its own accord falls into the swap. Everyone aboard is eaten by alligators. Whoever ordered the uranium betrayed the sellers.

My favorite character is Alex. He hasn't done much in this book yet, however from the last books I know that he is brave and quick-thinking. That is exactly what it takes to do what he does and I think that it is cool that he always uses those skills.

My least favorite character is General Sarov. It doesn't clearly say if he is the on who bought/stole (because the money will never get to the person who actually sold it) the uranium. If he is the the one who bought it then he would also be responsible for the deaths of the people on the plane. Technically everyone that died was a criminal, but this still makes Sarov my least favorite character.

Next, I think that Crawley will try to recruit Alex on a mission. The mission will most likely be stopping General Sarov if he did purchase the uranium. Alex will probably resist at first because he wants some time to just hang-out at home and with his friends, who could blame him, but eventually he will agree to go on the mission.