Name: I am number four
Rating: 3.747240618101545 (453 reviews)
ISBN: 9780061969553

Pittacus Lore

In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.

I am number four

John Smith is not your average teenager. He regularly moves from small town to small town. He changes his name and identity. He does not put down roots. He cannot tell anyone who or what he really is. If he stops moving those who hunt him will find and kill him. But you can't run forever. So when he stops in Paradise, Ohio, John decides to try and settle down. To fit in. And for the first time he makes some real friends. People he cares about - and who care about him. Never in John's short life has there been space for friendship, or even love. But it's just a matter of time before John's secret is revealed. He was once one of nine. Three of them have been killed. John is Number Four. He knows that he is next . . .

(Lorien Legacies Book 1)

I Am Number Four

Luke Harkness

Eh... it was OK

This was another YA novel that I picked up after seeing there was a bad movie made out of it. I'm always intrigued by these as I know they must have been good books to be made into a film in the first place.

What I got was a very mundane fantasy/Sci novel. It had some great ideas and a inhad a lot of time for the world Lore is trying to build but the love story had me cringing and everything was sooo obvious from the outset. The ending was just about good enough to make me consider giving it a three star but then I thought I'd given Divergent four star recently and this was nowhere near as good as that. It wasn't a bad book by any means, just not one I'd instantly go and tell everybody about.

Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you—but We are not you. We have powers you dream of having. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books— But we are real. They caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya. They killed them all. I am Number Four. I am next.

Annika Arguemore

better than the movie, of course. I love the plot of this story. it was mostly adventure.

★★★ // weird, but not something i can really appreciate. will probably not continue reading the rest of the series.

julia

I was excited to read this book because a lot of my friends are huge fans of it. Now, I can't understand why. The story doesn't make that much sense (how do they plan to reclaim Lorien?), and I didn't feel like the romance had any basis.

It had some nice young adult dystopia vibes like Hunger Games or Maze Runners only with Aliens. 

Not a fan of four though. He is annoying and selfish and doesn't listen. I really hoped for six to slap him on multiple occasions. 

The Chaimeara Plot was foreseeable. I am a bit confused why Henry suddenly became important when in the end game he could have easily been replaced by Sam. 

Oh Sam, I like him a lot and I am glad he is going with six and four. 

Despite the description of the beasts I am still lost on what they look like...

I amsad that Henry died, I'd rather four died, he was annoying.

Neele Knolle

It had some nice young adult dystopia vibes like Hunger Games or Maze Runners only with Aliens. 

Not a fan of four though. He is annoying and selfish and doesn't listen. I really hoped for six to slap him on multiple occasions. 

The Chaimeara Plot was foreseeable. I am a bit confused why Henry suddenly became important when in the end game he could have easily been replaced by Sam. 

Oh Sam, I like him a lot and I am glad he is going with six and four. 

Despite the description of the beasts I am still lost on what they look like...

I amsad that Henry died, I'd rather four died, he was annoying.

Kirsten Simkiss

This book was okay. I'd really give it 2.5 stars, just straddling the line between an acceptable read and a disappointing one. I love sci-fi stuff usually, but I just couldn't get into the characters. It kept this one pretty bland for me. The writing was also pretty simple in general. It didn't feel like it belittled the writers, but it just made the story drag for me because they took longer to say simple things.

As far as plot went, it was a decent concept: space teens running from the conquering race. I just don't see why the conquering race would give a damn. The most interesting character for me was Sam, although I still found him to be a little on the flat side in terms of how he was written. I wish I had more to say about the book, but I just found it to be pretty unremarkable YA fiction.

All in all, it's an okay book, but it wasn't my cup of tea.

Ale ♡

“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”



  Second reread:

This book would deserve 3.5 stars really.

I Am Number Four really isn't the great book. It's a typical YA cliché that leaves you with more questions than answers.

But it is the saga that got me back into the world of books and it was my first long-ass saga to read. I mean, I read all seven main books and all 32398739487 novellas. It doesn't have the wonderful, perfect writing, but it was one of the first English books I read and made an effort to read.

Its characters are a bit weak and flat really, even the plot -I always thought it was a good plot, only the first book doesn't develop it very well-, and even the dialogues or some scenes are quite cliché and repetitive, tiring for a science fiction book. But to this saga especially I have a tremendous affection, so much so that it is my all-time favorite saga.

This saga has more sentimental value to me than anything else. I was drowning in a cup of water when I first read I Am Number Four, and in a way, it helped me. I devoured these books very quickly and loved them like nothing else. In this book precisely things are very premature, and it is in the next books that you get to know the rest of the characters, everything they can do and many more things.

However, I am in love with this saga (not necessarily with this first book), with its characters and everything they go through, the journeys of their lives and how it all ends.

This saga is my "i'd marry you with paper rings", yup

Meredith Boster

Muy Bueno. This book was recommended me by a friend, so I checked it out of my school library for sustained silent reading. It was very good! I don't read a lot of dystopian science fiction type books, but this was a good one to get started back into the realm. 'Twas very Gucci and I will be reading the rest of the series as the coming months progress.

Jessica Guht

Emily Ruth Carter

Some parts were predictable but for the most part, an exciting book. It was interesting to read a YA sci-fi adventure novel from the male perspective, since I generally have read them from the female perspective, a la Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.

Samirah Arif

I was surprised about how much I enjoyed it. The idea is great and I love the pen name the author chose. My main issue is the unnecessary cursing and Sarah. IDK what it is about her, but I absolutely despise her. The writing style was easy and entertaining enough. The plot is great. This series is underrated.

Elska Bee

It's perfectly fine teen sci-fi. It doesn't do anything revolutionary but it's pleasant enough. I read this when it first came out and it's definitely held up pretty well. I got a bit bored towards the end when there's a lot of action/fighting. Overall the book was fun enough that I will be continuing the series on audiobook. 

Emily Vuong

** spoiler alert **
           This book wasn’t bad, but I did have a lot of problems with it, primarily the writing. The premise of the book wasn’t bad, albeit a bit cliché, but the writing is what really bothered me and what made me read this book a bit slower. The characters had promise, but they didn’t develop at all! The only one who did was Mark, but it was so sudden and we didn’t get to see much of it. He was put in a dangerous situation and he was suddenly a great, honorable guy after severely bullying John and Sam, not to mention basically kidnapping Sarah. Oh, also the insta-love between Sarah and Four bothered me. 1) Sarah was kind of just…there. She served no true purpose to this story other than being the love interest. A good story needs to have a love interest that is actually a person instead of just a blob with one hobby and no depth. Don’t get me wrong, I liked Sarah, but I got bored reading about how much he loved her when he didn’t even really know her. All that we really found out about her was that she loved photography and had a crazy ex. 2) On some level, I sort of get it because people from Lorien fall in love only once, so it makes sense that they fall in love fast, but this was too fast for me. It was like chapter four and he was already in love with her. Not a very fun read, in my opinion. I like to watch two characters get to know each other first and then fall in love because they know each other. 3) Insta-love in general just bothers me a lot because there’s no basis for a relationship! You see them meet and then BAM! They’re in love. 

This book wasn’t bad, but it could’ve been better written. The writers did it an injustice because the whole thing felt rushed and it honestly felt a bit like I was reading a rough draft instead of a published work of literature.

Jeni Enjaian

I really enjoy this genre. It's easy to read and for the most part the stories are compelling enough that I can read quickly and not get bogged down with things that usually annoy me. (I am a grammar nerd. I really am. :D)
I definitely was sucked into the book and once the narrative got going, it was easy to plow through the pages, usually at an intense skim pace. After reading some other reviews on this page, I will make the effort to read the following books slower and more analytically. For the most part I believed the narrative and want to learn more about the world. That being said, I did notice that was that Mark's transformation as a character seemed a bit unbelievable. Also, now that I think about it, Sarah's unquestioning love for Four also pushes believability almost beyond reasonable suspension.
I'll reserve judgement for after I've read the next couple in the series.

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