Scorpia Rising vs Snakehead: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Scorpia Rising Scorpia Rising Anthony Horowitz · 2011 ★★★★☆ 4.5 416 pages · ≈ 7 h 42 m · Light

This is the ninth (and possibly the concluding) installment to the Alex Rider series. The book was released in March, 2011. Notably, it portrays the ultimate destruction of the terrorist organization SCORPIA, the…

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Cover of Snakehead Snakehead Anthony Horowitz · 2007 ★★★★☆ 4.1 406 pages · ≈ 7 h 31 m · Light

What goes up must come down, and when we last saw Alex Rider, he was as up as can be—in outer space. When he crash lands off the coast of Australia, the Australian Secret Service recruits him to infiltrate one of the…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Scorpia RisingSnakehead
Goodreads — 3.2 (138)
Hardcover 4.1 (80) 3.9 (119)
Google Books — 4.5 (51)
Apple Books 4.5 (933) 4.5 (336)

Reception

Scorpia RisingSnakehead
Ratings 933 336
Editions 12 25
Film adaptations — 1
Wikipedia attention 12846 2404
Pages 416 406

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