Book review of
I am number Four

The book I have been reading is I am number Four by Pittacus Lore.
In I am number Four we are following the story about a young man named John Smith. I know, his name is very normal but you will understand later why he is called that. The truth is that John isn’t human – he is an alien from the planet Lorien.
Ten years ago he and other eight children where fled from the planet Lorien and landed on Earth. They fled because there was another alien race, called The Mogadarians, who took over their planet and destroyed everything. These nine children are known as Legacies and as they grow into adults they acquire the same special powers as their parents were gifted with. These powers are the only thing that can stop The Mogadarians.

Together with his guardian, Henri, John is traveling through America to escape facing with The Mogadarians. They can’t stay in one place for too long because then it would get easier for The Mogadarians to find them. The Mogadarians must kill every one of the nine Legacy children in order. And now they have already killed Number One, Number Two and Number Three. John is Number Four. Pittacus Lore, the author, words are very easy to understand. So for me, who speaks Swedish, had no problem understanding what it stood in the text. He also wrote very modern, no difficult words that you had to look in a dictionary. It was written as a teenage book should be.

But there was something that bothered me with his writing. You could tell that he hasn’t written so many books before. He repeated some words in almost every chapter. The words was “nod”, “shrugs” and “as though”. It was kind of annoying. When you are aware of that, you can’t help notice it.
Besides that, the book was pretty good. I found the 440 pages of I am Number Four very interesting and I really liked the story. But sometimes I felt that the book maybe was too long. Some of the chapter didn’t feel necessary. So if he shortened it, it would be so much better.

The book was also about love between John and this girl named Sarah. So the book was kind of sad. Why I think that it is sad is because this was the reason that John didn’t want to run anymore. He wanted to stay with Sarah and his new life forever. But he wasn’t supposed to make any friends, if he and Henri had to leave. It would be so much harder for John to leave.
This time John has to choose between love or saving his race and giving Lorien hope. And I like to read about hard decisions. So what do you think? Does he choose the girl or the people of Lorien in the ending...? Well, I guess you have to read the book to find out.

My rating: 3 of 5.