I am Number Four

Pittacus Lore

Book 1 of the Lorien Legacies series

I first learned of this series by watching the film by the same name (which I liked by the way). It didn't get great reviews and didn't make any money, so we probably won't see the sequels. As always, the book allows us to go deeper and get more detail. The story places 9 young aliens on earth along with their 9 mentors. These 18 are refugees from the planet Lorian, which was conquered and destroyed by aliens from the planet Mogadore. Upon leaving Lorian, the 9 Guarde were protected with a spell that only allowed them to be killed in order. The book opens with Number 3 being found and killed by the Mogadorians and we follow Number 4 for the remainder of the story. We get a little bit of a love interest, we get so wacky alien, conspiracy nuts, and generic teen/high school drama. The emphasis here is to set up the story of these 9 young aliens as living in secret until their powers develop (as some sort of alien puberty). Once the Legacies develop, the guarde can join together to defeat the Modadorians and begin repopulation of Lorian. As a book that stands on its own, only moderately good. As the first book for a series, the series has promise. Will let you know with future installments.

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Next up: The Power of Six (Book 2 of the Lorien Legacies series)