Response #1

I am reading the book Point Blank for my choice book. My first response to the book is that it is full of a lot of action, suspense, and mystery. Point Blank is the second book in the series, the Alex Rider series. In the first book, Alex’s only relative, his uncle, died in a mysterious way – a car accident, he was told, but he saw bullet holes in the car’s side. He finds out that his uncle was a spy, and was killed on the job. Then MI6, the intelligence agency, recruits him as a spy. This book starts out in the time period when he is catching up on school from his last mission. In the beginning of the book Alex catches a drug dealer, and turns him into the police, destroying a building in the process. MI6 finds him, and sends him on another mission. He is sent to a private school for troubled rich kids. MI6 wants to find out what they are doing there.

So far I really like this book because I really like action and adventure novels. I also like it because it always has something exciting going on - it is hard to put down. Some choices Alex had to make were if he really wanted to go on another mission, and what he should do with the drug dealer. I don’t agree with his decision with the drug dealer, I think he could have just told the police instead of trying to be heroic. I think everybody would like this book, if they like action and excitement, and I would rate the book a 9.5 out of 10, because it is never boring.