Customer Reviews
Skeleton Key 
2008-07-05
Skeleton Key is just the next twist in the Alex Rider series. This book sets the stage for what will happen in future novels! The writing is wonderful! Horowitz is great at building not only a plot, but also at keeping your attention on the story. The Rider series also allows the reader to pick the series up at any time and be up on the action.
Jackie's review 2008-05-03
I'm surprised that the Kindle store has these and not Artemis Fowl. I am one of the few child Kindle owners, and surprised at the somewhat limited selection. But it's good that they have theese books, at any rate.
I am looking at the actual paper-and-ink version sitting in my bookcase.
Alex is a very logical, mature charachter. He knows how to get things done in the spy world, a world where everyone is suspect and no one is ever your partner for long. The situations he gets himself into are suspenseful, to say the least.
I like how the author seems to demonstrate all the knowledge that he wants his charachter to have. For instance, when Alex was diving, he observed all of the correct diving protocall. If Alex would have headed straight for the surface from his depth, he would have gotten the bends. However, I believe that Alex was diving partnerless? I'm not sure, but I think you are supposed to always dive with a partner. Maybe Alex was going against the rules (again). Not that his going against the rules is bad in most cases. Obviously.
"Ryan" has probably already written a review on one of these books, expressing his hatred of them, and I wouldn't blame him. Some parts of the Alex Rider books seemed slightly childish to me, and to him they must seem downright ridiculous.
Perfect for the gifted fifth grader or the average sixth or seventh grader. Maybe not so much for the gifted seventh graders (or the average tenth graders as it were).
The Amazing Alex 2008-02-22
I keep reading these books because I like that the characters are sneaky and mysterious. My first impression about the character was that Alex was a courageous and strong kid. He completed 3 dangerous missions in the past and survived. I think that is incredible. There was a lot of description and conversations in the book. He even talked to professional spies or killers. The author describes very well by using many figurative languages like similes and metaphors. One day I read for 80 minutes. I'm going to tell you a brief summary of the book. Alex Rider go sent on a mission to find a nuclear weapon that can destroy Russia in 1 blow. When Alex was snooping around for some clues, he saw a killer that he had faced in the past. He got caught but he found the mastermind behind the evil plot. After this brief summary I hope you would read this book. I thought this was one of the best Alex Rider book I have ever read. I don't really like mystery books, but this book changed my mind. This book is a thrilling adventure and I would definently read other books by this author.
This is a really good series for adolescent boys. 2007-07-23
I am an English teacher reviewing this series for student consumption. I think it is an excellent series, especially for adolescent boys. The girls, however, enjoy it too.
Skeleton Key 2007-05-21
Skeleton key
The book I just read was one out of five books of the series Alex Rider written by Anthony Horowitz. The book I read was called Skeleton key. Alex Rider saves the world again even though he is a young teenager. This book is a thrilling page turner and you will not want to stop reading! This book is all you will concentrate on while you read. Who ever likes spy and mystery books will love this story!
This great story starts off in a Cessna Skyhawk Sp coming in for a land at Cayo Esqueleto (Skeleton Key) I love how this book is always a mystery when you turn the pages. It is always very exciting as you read! The men in the plane were looking at a thermal intensifier. Things were going just the way they planed.
Unfortunately it was going to be kind of hard to land on the runway. But luckily there were two lights at the beginning of the runway. That was a little about the beginning of the book. But here is where the book gets exciting! Alex Rider is spying on a man named Alexei Sarav (bad guy). As Alex is spying in Sarav's mansion he gets caught. Alex Rider is held in Sarav's old horse shed, but manages to escape. (Man Alex is good!)
Now Alex has run into a big obstacle, to stop a nuclear bomb in England. All right I'm not going to tell anymore details about the book because I don't want to ruin the ending to the book. I really encourage people to read this great book and even the rest of the series because it's great too! So if you get the chance read the book Skeleton Key!
Skeleton Key 2007-03-16
Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside, and stood face-to-face with evil. Twice, young Alex has saved the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. But now Alex faces something even more dangerous. The desperation of a man who has lost everything he cared for: his country and his only son. A man who just happens to have a nuclear weapon and a serious grudge against the free world. To see his beloved Russia once again be a dominant power, he will stop at nothing. Unless Alex can stop him first.
The phenomenon that is the Alex Rider series returns with pulse-quickening action as, for the first time, Britain's MI6 and America's CIA unite forces. Be glad Alex is on our side.
skeleton Key 2007-02-28
The world saving teen Alex Rider. The book skeleton Key is about a teenager spy that saves the world. He went with the C.I.A to spy on sarov on the island called skeleton Key. Sarov capures him and holds him at his house. The two C.I.A agent he went with where never seen again. The theme of the book is when alex saved Russia from getting blown up. The reason why Anthony Horowitz might have wrote the book is for intertainment. The book was exiting and intence always because he was trying to escape from Sarov to save the world. In part of the book it said, The grind stones were getting closer with every second that passed. He could feel the vibration trensmited down the conveyor belt.This part was important because Alex Rider could have ben killed right their. I recomend all ages to reead this because it is intence, exiting, and all around fun to read.
Best book in Alex Rider series 
2007-02-27
Skeleton Key is about a fourteen-year-old spy named Alex Rider. Alex works for MI6. It is a spy company in London, England. He is really useful to MI6 because he is young and no one would suspect a fourteen-year-old as being a spy. Alex is a very brave and adventurous boy. He is sent on another mission to stop a Russian General, Alexei Sarov. Alex usually works for MI6 in London, but in Skeleton Key he is sent to help the CIA in America. Two CIA agents and and Alex go to Skeleton Key, an island right near Cuba. This is where Sarov lives. All three of them are supposed to look like a family just enjoying themselves on vacation. The CIA is suspicious about Sarov and believes he has a nuclear bomb. Sarov wanted to use this bomb to conquer the world. Read the rest of the book to find out all about the action and adventures that Alex Rider experiences in trying to capture this evil man. This book was great because of all the action that is has. It keeps your attention and is hard to put down. This is the third book in the Alex Rider series and I think that this book was the best!
An Exciting Teenage Vacation 2007-02-16
Alex Rider has worked for MI6 but now the CIA. Alex is to pretend that he is the son of two CIA agents when they go on a mission on an island called Skeleton Key. Alex was told that this would just be a surveillance mission but when the two CIA agents go missing he thinks it is something else. He figures out that General Sarov, a man who lives on the island, has a nuclear bomb and is planning to blow up part of Russia. Can Alex stop him before it's to late.
Anthony Horowitz is a great author. He is good at getting you interested in the book at the very start. At the start of Skeleton Key Alex is a ball boy at the Wimbledon Tennis Cup. He is suspicious of a guard because he is always around when the players drink water out of a certain place. Alex figures out the problem and takes the guard out.
It's a really good read... 2007-02-14
He only has seconds to spare. Alex Rider a 14-year-old boy part of MI6 is
tied to a pole while he watches the whole world about to be blown up. He
was underground where there were three submarines that if blown up could
destroy all of humanity, as we know it.
"Man I am so afraid right now, Alex said to himself trying to think of
how to stop the three submarines from blowing up, there has to be a way
but what, what!?"
This book is an action book and this book is in the middle of a series. In
my opinion I really liked this book because I love anything with action in
it and this book had plenty of it. This book is a first person book
because he is telling his entire story.
This book is a realistic fiction book because the CIA really could get a
teenage secret agent to work for them and he could go through all the
missions that they have him go through. Kids from ages 10 and up would
like this book and this book is for boys and girls but only if u like
action. This book is called the Skeleton Key and is written by Anthony
Horowitz and he has written the entire series which goes in this order,
Stormbreaker, Point Blank, Skeleton Key, Eagle Strike, and Scorpia. I
really like Anthony Horowitz because this entire series is pure action
which is why I started to read the series. I strongly recommend this book
and series especially if you like action and secret agent stuff so I hope
you read this book because its amazing.
-Clay Tucker
