Hey readers! This is the first review on Pink Ink. Yeah, it's true.
Today I'm gonna review the BOOK, sadly not the movie, "I Am Number Four".
Here's the synopsis:
The story rotates around a Lordic Garde, who named himself as John Smith. His real name is unknown. There are 9 Gardes who survived the annhilation of Lorien. The Gardes are the people of Lorien who will eventually gain something known as Legacies, which are like special powers. A charm was put upon all 9 of them, that they can only be killed according to order. The first three are dead, therefore it makes John, the next in line to be killed. By who? The Mogadorians. The Mogadorians are ruthless "aliens". They have consumed their whole planet, making them travel the universe in search of resources. They destroyed Lorien, so their next destination is Earth, which so happens to be where the 9 Gardes and their Cepans(which are the Gardes' guardians) are landed. The Gardes are seperated from each other because their charm will break if they are together.
Starting off with the death of Number Three, John moves with his Cepan, Henri, to Paradise, Ohio. There, he fell in love with a girl by the name of Sarah Hart. Sarah Hart's ex-boyfriend, Mark James, didn't like John and always picks on him, until one day during the school's Halloween's celebration. During the haunted hayride, Mark and his football people, which happen to be in charge of the hayride, picks on them in the middle of the woods. John got angry and he let his Legacies run free. John's Legacy at that time was Lumen, which made him resistant to fire and heat, as well as allowing his hands to glow. He, being an alien, was stronger and faster than any other human. He single-handedly took down all the footballers and threw them into the river. That was when Sarah became John's girlfriend.
Today I'm gonna review the BOOK, sadly not the movie, "I Am Number Four".
Here's the synopsis:
The story rotates around a Lordic Garde, who named himself as John Smith. His real name is unknown. There are 9 Gardes who survived the annhilation of Lorien. The Gardes are the people of Lorien who will eventually gain something known as Legacies, which are like special powers. A charm was put upon all 9 of them, that they can only be killed according to order. The first three are dead, therefore it makes John, the next in line to be killed. By who? The Mogadorians. The Mogadorians are ruthless "aliens". They have consumed their whole planet, making them travel the universe in search of resources. They destroyed Lorien, so their next destination is Earth, which so happens to be where the 9 Gardes and their Cepans(which are the Gardes' guardians) are landed. The Gardes are seperated from each other because their charm will break if they are together.
Starting off with the death of Number Three, John moves with his Cepan, Henri, to Paradise, Ohio. There, he fell in love with a girl by the name of Sarah Hart. Sarah Hart's ex-boyfriend, Mark James, didn't like John and always picks on him, until one day during the school's Halloween's celebration. During the haunted hayride, Mark and his football people, which happen to be in charge of the hayride, picks on them in the middle of the woods. John got angry and he let his Legacies run free. John's Legacy at that time was Lumen, which made him resistant to fire and heat, as well as allowing his hands to glow. He, being an alien, was stronger and faster than any other human. He single-handedly took down all the footballers and threw them into the river. That was when Sarah became John's girlfriend.
Many more was revealed in the later of the book, when the Mogadorians came to Paradise, Ohio. Number Six came to help John to fight the battle there. Henri dies at the end of the book. Number Six, John and his friend, Sam, leave Paradise, leaving Mark and Sarah behind. The story ends there and will be continued in its sequel, The Power Of Six.
I have left many parts of the story from the synopsis, lest I should kill the fun of it.
My Ratings:
Storyline: 7/10
Storyline: 7/10
It has a good storyline that kept me guessing all along, though some were quite predictable.
Language: 6/10
The language usage was fine. Easy to understand to there were some words which I did not know. Vulgar, in a few parts but the overall was fine.
Action: 7/10
I give it a 7 because there wasn't really a lot of action, except in selected parts where there was fighting. The whole book, for me, was just about John and Sarah. The fighting was during the Hayride, at Athens, Ohio and at the later end of the book.
Creativity: 8/10
I find the author wrote the book in a very creative way, about how aliens and humans are so much alike and the way he depicted them and the description of the characters, are really different in aspects as well as seperating the Humans, Lordics and the Mogadorians from each other. I wouldn't have thought of any other way to put it so clearly.
Values: 8/10
This book holds a lot of values, though there were many kissing parts, between John and Sarah throughout the whole book, drinking and violence and vulgarity as well. The book displays a lot of friendship between John and Henri, John and Sarah and between John and Sam. It shows how important they put friendship ahead of themselves and how important friends are to a person especially if that person has been on the run, switching names and homes for over 10 years.
The total? 7+6+7+8+8 / 50
= 36/50
=7.2/10
= A good book
Its really a good book to read. Had me reading it for 5 hours straight till my eyes couldn't stay open anymore. Try it.
1 thumbs up.
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