I Am Number Four

This is the first book review I've done on here! I have decided to do it on ‘I am Number Four’ by Pittacus Lore, because the film is coming out soon and I want to write this first.

This is a young adult sci- fi book about an alien/boy called Number Four. (He has to change his name a lot so during the course of this book his name is John.)

It is about a group of nine aliens, called ‘the Gardes’, (who look exactly like humans) who came to Earth from the planet Lorien after the ‘Mogadoriens’ attacked their home planet. Three of these died before the book begins. The book focuses on ‘Number Four’. They have to be killed in the order of their numbers, so he knows that he is next. They don’t have contact with each other, but every time one is killed, the others will have a ring burnt into the flesh around their ankles.

To avoid being caught by the ‘Mogadoriens’, Number Four has to change his identity a lot. In this book he is ‘John Smith’.

Each Garde has a ‘Cepan’ (an adult teacher from Lorien) who trains them, so eventually they can all get together and overthrow the Mogadorians.

It is the first in a series that is going include six books. I would recommend it to anyone who likes a really dramatic action type sci-fi. It is cleverly written, and it is obvious why it was chosen to make a film out of, because the book reads almost like a screenplay.

P.S. I really doubt his name is really Pittacus Lore, but if it is, that’s even cooler than Aprilynne Pike!

Bye for now J

Mary