The ‘I am Number Four’ book series is a gripping teen fiction set of books that got it’s first book onto the big screen. The series has, thus far, featured four novels, ‘I am Number Four’, ‘The Power of Six’, ‘The Rise of Nine’ and ‘The Fall of Five’. The series has also featured many novellas. I am currently reading the fourth novel, ‘The Fall of Five’ and haven’t read any of the novellas as of yet.
The books document a group of teenage aliens who have landed on Earth and are trying to blend in to escape the Mogadorians, an evil alien race that destroyed their home planet. The nine Loric aliens are all attempting to meet each other under cover to try and defeat the Mogadorians. Each of the Loric aliens can develop legacies, superpowers and are using these to fight Mogadorians and their evil leader Setrakus Ra, the main antagonist. The books mainly follow number four, John Smith’s point of view, the main protagonist. However, the book does also show other Loric aliens paths through the story. The Mogadorians are hunting down each of the Loric aliens and have to kill them one by one, in order, numbers one to three are dead, can four survive?
I love the diverse themes that this book series has, love, romance, sci-fi superpowers, gripping battles and loss. Each theme is beautifully intertwined with one another. Romance and battles, love and loss all come in tandem. John Smith falls for a human American girl and the book beautifully shows how he is torn between dragging a human into his desperate situation and losing his love for her safety.
The action in the books flows at an incredibly fast pace and keeps you right on the edge of your seat. Furthermore, I really like it that the books show different Loric aliens points of view so you can see the action from different sides of the story. I also like the writing style and the way it encourages you to predict an outcome but uses twists cleverly.
Overall, the ‘I am Number Four’ book series is my favourite book series I have ever read and therefore, deserves a 4.75 out of 5. In order to get a 5 out of 5, there could have been some less predictable moments.
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