Chapter 3: The Widows Palace

This chapter is where the action starts. It is the last day of their one week vacation before they leave for Naples to see Toms brother. Alex hasn't found a trace of Scorpia. then he sees a motor boat with a golden scorpian on the side. He follows the motor bout to a giant mansion built over the water like most houses in Venice. This mansion is called the Ca'Vedova. That's Italian for Widows Palace. Tonight there is going to be a costume party at the mansion and Alex plans on breaking in and finding out more about Scorpia and his dad.

Chapter 1: Invisible Sword-Chapter 2: Scippatori

These chapters are the first 25 pages of the book.Invisible Sword reveals a lot of important things you need to know. Scorpia is one of the biggest, most powerful, most wealthy, most elusive terrorist organization. Scorpia stands for Sabotage, Corruption, Intelligence, and Assasination. These are their areas of expertise. There are 8 leaders who share equal power in Scorpia, but every operation has a leader. To reword that, one of the 8 leaders is chosen to be a head leader for each operation. Their new operation, Invisible Sword, is being led by Julia Rothman. She personally knew Alex's father who was their best assasin. I'll tell you more about him in upcoming chapters.

Scippatori is a short chapter which basically introduces the main character of the book:Alex. Alex is on summer vacation with his best friend Tom. They both are in Venice where Alex was told he would find Scorpia. Alex helps a woman from being robbed, but that has no importance to the book. That is basically all that happens in that chapter.

Background Information

The books before this one are Stormbreaker, Point Blank, Skeleton Key, and Eagle Strike. if the titles didn't give it away already, the genre is spy/mystery. Alex Rider is the protagonist. He is a 14 year-old from England, and was very young when his parents died. So he lived with his uncle, Ian Rider, in London with his 20 year-old house keeper, Jack Starbright (Yes, Jack is a girl) until his uncle died in a "car crash". Thus begins Stormbreaker. Alex finds out that his uncle was in no car crash but rather killed by a contract killer named Yassen Gregorovich. Alex finds out that the "bank" his uncle worked for is actually the MI-6. The MI-6 is the British equivilant of the CIA. His uncle was on to something but was killed before he could tell MI-6. I won't go into greater detail to save time and incase anyone wants to read the books, but it's up to Alex to save the world and take the place of his uncle. Each book is a separate mission to save the world. In the last book I read, Yassen appears again. Yassen isn't exactly a villian or a hero. He's just a contract killer who's doing his job. He seems to take a liking to Alex, and at the end of the book we find out why. Yassen and Alex's father worked together before he died. As Yassen takes his final breaths he tells alex to find Scorpia and he will find the truth about his father. If I need to explain anything else I will put it in along with my posts so you can understand. Enjoy.

New Project...Same Blog

This year I have a new English project, but Miss K is no longer my teacher. Mrs. Washburn is. I will be reading the book Scorpia by Anthony Harowitz. It's the 5th in a series. therefore I must give you background information so you can understand what goes on in the book. Also pay no attention to the blogs below, they are from last year, unless you want to read about the War of the Worlds. The book's title is interesting because it's my astonomical sign.