Books in Alex Rider series
Style: Average
Attitude: Unobjectionable
Alex Rider believes his uncle guardian to be a banker.
Adventure, Boys
Style: Average
Attitude: Unobjectionable
14-year-old Alex Rider is asked once again by MI6 to go on a mission: this time, to infiltrate an exclusive Academy set high in the French Alps.
Adventure, Boys
Style: Average
Attitude: Unobjectionable
On the run from the Chinese Triads after foiling one of their plans at the Wimbledon tennis championships, Alex Rider is loaned out to the CIA to infiltrate a Russian ex-General's secret base on an island near Cuba.
Adventure, Boys
Style: Average
Attitude: Unobjectionable
Alex is holidaying with Sabina and her family in the south of France, when he sees Yassen, whom he recognises from [Stormbreaker].
Adventure, Boys
Style: Average
Attitude: Unobjectionable
Alex, taking advantage of a school trip to Venice, finds his way to the headquarters of Scorpia, where Yassen had hinted he could find out about his father.
Adventure, Boys
Style: Average
Attitude: Unobjectionable
Alex, recuperating in hospital, is mistaken for Paul Drevin, son of a rich businessman, and kidnapped.
Adventure, Boys
Style: Average
Attitude: Some Care Needed → Unobjectionable
Alex agrees to help MI6 in return for their ridding him of a journalist who's learned about his secret life.
More of the same from Alex Rider. Page-turning adventure stuff, pleasing to boys, dramatic and well-researched, but without any particular characteristic to set it apart from the rest of the series or from other books in the genre. Alex selflessly puts his life at risk to confound an evil scheme with no hope of reward. A crook uses his apparent (but unreal) conversion to Christianity as a mask for his continued criminal schemes. A thought-provoking if disturbing kidnap scene. Alex continues to fail to grow, but has at his disposal a tremendous ability to think and act his way out of dangerous situations, coupled with an amazing stamina and determination: A "Boys' Own" Boy.
Adventure, Boys
Style: Average
Attitude: Some Care Needed → Fairly Positive
(synthesised) Alex Rider, in some spectacular set piece, (foils a robbery / spikes an evil plan / discovers a hidden plot), at which point MI6 then call him in to tell him that they'll tidy up whatever mess he left behind, but that it would be useful if he were to infiltrate (a computer game company / a Cuban holiday resort / the home of a suspiciously rich man) armed only with (explosive chewing gum / acidic toothpaste / a metal-detecting yo-yo).
Attractive and mostly unobjectionable action-paced young spy stories. Occasional very mild references to a teenage girl's precocious interest in boys. General air of amorality among main characters.
Adventure, Boys