Saturday 22 October 2016

The French Confection by Anthony Horowitz(Diamond Brothers again !!)

Ratings:****
Image result for The French ConfectionThe Diamond Brothers win a weekend for two in Paris. It was supposed to be a holiday trip, but it turns deceptive. Strange things starts happenening, the Diamond Brother have to figure out!
Read this book to find out!

South By South East by Anthony Horowitz (3rd of the diamond brother series)

Rating:****
Image result for South By South EastA mysterious stanger offers Tim money for his old jacket. After a while they find him dead near a telephone booth.His last word was "South By South East" They go to the police and when they return back,neither the telephone booth, nor the stranger is there anymore. The police shouts at them for wasting police time.But, they had found a ticket in the tranger's jacket.
Who had shot him? Who was he working for? Read and find how they find out!

The Falcon's Malteser by Anthony Horowitz (1st of Diamond Brother Series)

Rating:****
Image result for falcon's malteserVertically challenged Jonny Naples pays Tim Diamond 200 pounds to keep a package worth over 3 million pounds for 1 week. But he's making a huge mistake as Tim Diamond is the worst detective in the world. Next day Tim and his brother go to meet him, but he's dead and they get the blame. Nick, Tim's younger and smater brother works it out. Every person in the town is after them to get the package.
Read the book to find out how the little package is worth so much, even though it doesn't seem to!

Granny by Anthony Horowitz

Ratings:***
Image result for Granny by anthony horowitzSon of rich parents Joe Warden doesn't like his granny. He lives in a huge mansion called Thattlebee Hall.His rich parents hired a nanny for their son. The granny seems to hate him and have a nasty, cruel and a wicked plan to trouble him. She sends his parents on abroad and now they both are in the house, alone. But Joe, hopelessly saves himself in this process.

Read the book to know how!

Thursday 15 September 2016

The Switch by Anthony Horowitz

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Ratings:4.5/5

Be careful what you wish for..

For Tad Spencer,thirteen year old son of a wealthy businessman, he has everything he wants. He lives in a big house with maids, servants all around on his service. He can go anywhere he wants in his vacations. He has every luxury imaginable. He has all of it, until he makes a mistake, a huge one by wishing that he was someone else. This made him wake up as Bob Snarly in a filthy caravan, thin and shabby one year younger with cruel things around him. The funfair is a strange one with mysterious fortune tellers, criminals and strange things. Slowly the secret began to untangle and he realizes it will not be the same again...

Wednesday 17 August 2016

Russian Roulette by Anthony Horowitz

The prequel to Alex Rider Series.
Yasha Gregorovitch's parents worked in a fertilizer and pesticide factory. But after an incident, he becomes Yassen Gregorovich. He meets Scorpia and he becomes a killer, hesitant to kill at first, but later gets used to it. He meets Alex Rider's father John Rider who saves his life once. He oves him and never killed Alex Rider, even when he is supposed to.
What made Yasha, a 14 year old boy to Yassen, a grown up person who choses to be a killer? How did he meet Scorpia?How had John Rider saved Yassen's life?
Read this book and find out about Yassen's past!

The most deadliest of all: Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz

Ratings:5/5SCORPIA RISING.jpg

"Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out."
Alex Rider had failed Scorpia's missions twice. This time, Scorpia takes revenge. The Scorpia is paid $40 million for returning the Elgin Marbles back to Greece. They have also decided to have Julius Grief, the clone of Hugo Grief  who now has the same face as Alex by a plastic surgery(in Point Blanc). They want to make Britain the enemy of the world. This is Alex's deadliest mission, in fact, his last mission.Will he live? Or will he die? Can he save Britain from the claws of Scorpia?Read this book to find this out!

Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz

Rating:4.5/5
"You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are."
Crocodile Tears (novel).pngAlex goes to Scotland with Sabina Pleasure and her dad in a New Year Eve's party hosted by a rich businessman Desmond McCain, founder of charity First Aid. But as Alex, Sabina, and her father drive home, a sniper shoots the tire of their car, causing them to lose control and crash into a loch. Alex, Sabina, and her father barely escape from the vehicle.
When Alex returns to England, a journalist named Harry Bulman gets to know about Alex's MI6 activities and wants to publicise them. Alex seeks help from the MI6, who in return send him on a mission during the school trip for knowing more information about the GM plants research facility named Greenfields. 
What does he find out? What does he save the world from? Is he successful this time too?
Read the book to find out!

Monday 8 August 2016

6th in the Alex Rider Series: Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz

Rating:4.5/5
"Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean difference between life and death"
Anthony Horowitz Arkangel Cover.JPGAlex Rider is shot in his arm by Scorpia. He is in hospital and is recovering. Four masked men enter the hospital to kidnap Paul Drevin, son of Russian billionaire Nikolei Drevin, who is financing a space hotel called "Ark Angel". By the act of saving his son from being kidnapped, Nikolei Drevin invites him to stay with his child Paul Drevin. But, Alex Rider discovers that Nikolei Drevin is cruel. Alex Rider is sent by the CIA the second time to spy on Drevin. There is someone else there sent by CIA too.
Can Alex save the world again? Will the other agent be killed?
Read and find out!

Best of the Alex Rider Series: Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz

Rating:5/5 This is my favourite in the Alex Rider Series.
Scorpia.JPGThe letters SCORPIA stands for "Sabotage Corruption, Intelligence and Assassination" 
Alex Rider tries to find the criminal organisation "Scorpia" to find the truth about his father. Luckily, he is on a school trip to Venice, the place where Scorpia is present. He joins that organisation and goes back to Britain to kill Mrs. Jones to take revenge.
Does Mrs. Jones survive the attack by Alex Rider? Does he decide to stay in Scorpia forever?
Read this book to find out the truth about Scorpia and Alex's father.

4th of the Alex Rider Series: Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz

Rating:4.5/5
Another chance for Alex to save the world!
Eaglestrike.JPGThis time Alex Rider is in a holiday with Sabina Pleasure in France, whom he had met at the Wimbledon. But the holiday gets ruined by him meeting  Yassen Gregorovich, the contract killer who had killed his uncle.  Pleasure's holiday home is exploded and Alex  Rider believes it was not a gas leak but an attack by Yassen. Sabina's father , a journalist was writing an article about the secret meeting of  Damian Cray, a world-famous pop star. Alex believes that Damian Cray had ordered to kill Pleasure's father. But the MI6 does not believe that Damian Cray is bad and tells Alex to spy on him himself. Cray releases a state-of-the-art games console called the 'Gameslayer'. Its first game, 'Feathered Serpent', is much more than it seems. It is up to Alex to discover the connection between the pop star, the video game, and the bombing of his vacation home. Alex is caught spying and is forced to play real life version of 'Feathered Serpent'. He survives it and runs away with stealing a pendrive, a part of his plan. But Damian kidnaps Sabina to force Alex to come back and give his pendrive back.
What is the connection between the pop star, the video game and the bombing? What is Damian Cray up to? How does Alex save the world?
Find it your yourself by reading this book!

3rd in the Alex Rider Series: Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz

Rating:4.5/5
The book, Skeleton Key, opens with two men, Marc and Carlo and an unnamed pilot, flying to meet with General Alexei Sarov in Cayo Esqueleto (Spanish for "Skeleton Key"), a fictional island just off of Cuba to exchange a kilogram of uranium for money the general has promised them. The two men threaten him to pay more money, so the General kills them both. The CIA get to know about it. After foiling a Triad plot to fix the 2001 Wimbledon tennis tournament by knocking out one of their members with a carbon dioxide tank, Alex is in grave danger of assassination.He is now forced to leave the country. The CIA  sends a "family" with 2 CIA agents and Alex Rider as their "child" to Cuba where the "child" only lives.
What was the General planning to do with the uranium?How do they get spotted? How does Alex survive? 
Read this book to know!

2nd in the Alex Rider Series: Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz

Rating:4.5/5
This is the second in the action packed Alex Rider Series.
"Because I don't like coincidence," Blunt replied. "In fact, I don't believe in coincidence. Where some people see coincidence, I see conspiracy. That's my job.” 
There is a death of American billionaire Michael J. Roscoe in New York, arranged by a reputable contract killer known only as The Gentleman. In London, Alex Rider ends up in trouble with the police for causing a large amount of damage to a new police headquarters by exposing a school drug dealer. In exchange for any potential charges being dropped, Alex is assigned by MI6 to investigate the mysterious deaths of Roscoe and another billionaire General Viktor Ivanov on the Black Sea. The only apparent connection between the two men is that they both had a son attending Point Blanc, an academy in the French Alps run by a South African scientistDr. Hugo GriefAlan Blunt, who was contacted by a distressed Roscoe before his death, is suspicious, and so sends Alex to investigate. Alex's cover is that of the son of a supermarket magnate, Sir David Friend.
Is there a connection between the deaths? Will he survive and again save the world? 
Read the book and find your answers yourself !

The 1st Book of the Alex Rider series: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

Rating:4.5/5
The Alex Rider Series is my favorite. it is filled up of action packed events. This is the first book of the series.
Alex Rider-you're never too young to die...
It is the story of an orphan Alex Rider. His parents has died in a plane crash. So, Alex Rider lived with his uncle Ian Rider who worked in a bank.His uncle had taught him martial arts. His uncle had forbidden him to come in his room. But, his uncle dies one day. The police said that there was a car crash and Ian had not put the seat belt. the police said that if he had put the seat belt, he could have been saved. But, Alex was sure that his uncle was very careful and never drove the car without wearing the seat belt himself.  Also, a man comes in his car in his funeral.  The car's driver had a pistol in his jacket. He becomes suspicious and follows them. In his uncle's room in the office he finds a file named "Stormbreaker".
How did his uncle actually die? What was Stormbreaker?
Read the story and kill your curiosity!