Nightrise Essay

Nightrise Essay

“Then there was the screech of tires and a second car pulled out of nowhere, veering across the path of oncoming traffic. Jamie heard the blast of horns. The neon lights were blurring and the whole night seemed to be folding in on itself. He thought that the car was going to run him over and he wondered what would be the point of that. Drug him and then kill him? It wouldn’t make any sense. The car shuddered to a halt. One of its tires had mounted the sidewalk. The car was between him and the two men – just as the German Sheppard had been earlier. A door swung open and a voice called out to him. “Get in!”” (p40) That is a very small part of one of the many action packed scenes in the book “Nightrise” by Anthony Horowitz. This book is my favorite in the whole series because it is full of action and always keeps you thinking about what is going to happen next.

My favorite thing about this book is that you never know what is going to happen next. At one point the main character Jamie was shot well escaping from prison. He woke up in the past where there had been a terrible war. Luckily he was on the victorious side of the war, he and five other teenagers won by a trick. The next morning he was back in the mountains a short distance from the prison he had escaped. Another example is that in Jamie’s dreams he saw a man who kept telling him that he is going to kill him, not referring to Jamie. Later in the book Jamie stopped his brother from killing a candidate for a presidential election. I assumed that the “he” was the group of people had kidnapped Scott, Jamie’s brother. I also thought that Scott was the one that was going to get killed. Later in the book Jamie stopped Scott from assassinating a presidential election candidate. The people that had kidnapped Scott had tried to turn him against Jamie. The author always writes the last thing that you would expect to happen. That is always a good characteristic for a book to have. It keeps you reading trying to find out what is going to happen.

Along with the many surprising events was great vocabulary. When a book has good vocabulary it lets you visualize a scene better. It helps you better understand where the main character is and what is happening. “Two of the rotors were missing and the other two were buckled and broken. The tail had snapped in half and the cockpit was a mess of shattered glass and dangling wires.” (p162) That is how the author described the crashed helicopter they encountered in the desert. The author could have just said that there was a crashed helicopter which wouldn’t give you a good picture of the scene. Instead he used a variety of vocabulary words to let you in a way visualize the scene. I enjoy reading when the author does that good of a job describing a scene.

As you can see there are many things that make this an interesting book to read. This book is my favorite in the whole series because it is full of action and always keeps you thinking about what is going to happen next. I would recommend this book to almost any body.