Spencer Dimmick
Ark Angel
Anthony Horowitz
Realistic fiction
Holiday
289

1. Right now Alex Rider, the teen british spy and main character, has just managed to defeat the multibillionaire Nikoli Drevin, and is trying to figure out how to defeat his seemingly unstoppable scheme to send a space hotel, Ark Angel, plummeting towards the Pentagon. Their idea is to send Alex into space to stop his plan.

2. I enjoy this book. It's not the first time that I've read it, but it has been a while and I manage to find new things in it each time. It has a good plot, but this plot, which inevitably ends up with Alex saving the world, is used in each book and is wearing a bit thin.

3. The theme I notice most in this story is deceit. Not a nice theme, but everyone in the story is deceitful. Alex lies to Nikoli and his son Paul to stay undercover, and Nikoli lies to everyone about his nefarious idea.

4. My favorite character in this story is Jack Starbright, Alex's caretaker. She has to go through a lot, with Alex working for MI6 and often coming back at any time bruised and beaten. She gets through it with a smile on her face, however, and it makes her a likeable character.

5. My least favorite character in the story is Alan Blunt, head of MI6. Even when Alex is in the hospital recovering from a bullet wound, Alan is scheming to get him close to Nikoli in order to find out what it is that he's up to.

6. I think that Alex is going to be put in space to stop Ark Angel from being destroyed, but I don't know how that is going to happen. It should be interesting to see how the CIA manage to get him into space.