I first read I Am Number Four after watching the film, and I'm glad it was this way round, because although I knew the storyline, the book completely blew the film out of the water, as they usually do. I quite enjoyed the film so I'm glad I could enjoy it before the book made this impossible! The book follows a completely original storyline, and is a mix between a teenage romance and science fiction. With first love and superpowers mixed together, the results are surprisingly surreal. The use of first person and present tense gives a very personal and immediate effect which allows you to become more involved with the book, taking incidences to heart, and ...  Read the complete review

My sister has almost as many books as I have, though she is considerably faster at reading than myself (and she has more spare time too!), hence the reason that I find myself reviewing a book that she has lent me....again! The book in question is - "I am number four, Pittacus Lore". John Smith is not your average teenager, in fact John Smith is not actually his real name. Nearly ten years ago John (number four) and his father/guardian Henri (Brandon) fled their own planet of Lorian, after being attached by a parasite race, the mogodorians, who have already destroyed all the resources on their own planet, and are now looking for ...  Read the complete review

I recently saw the film version of "I Am Number Four" and didn't enjoy it too much, finding it lacking in many ways. Even allowing for the fact that books are nearly always better than films in comparative titles, I didn't have any plan to read the book, until my flatmate came home with a copy having picked it up in the WHSmith "Buy 1 Get 1 Half Price" offer. Sometimes a good book can be turned into a bad film; sometimes a bad film results from having a bad book to work from. That was the case here. As with the film, the book of "I Am Number Four" follows the life of John Smith, who is an alien who escaped from Lorien when his ...  Read the complete review

I came across this book by accident last week. I found it in Tesco on the 2 for £8 offer. I was intrigued by the cover; it seemed like my sort of book. "We were Nine Three are Dead I am Number Four" I didn't really know what it was about but the synopsis on the back made it sound like a good read. I started reading that night and I have to confess, I wasn't really that impressed. I don't generally read sci-fi although I do enjoy watching it. As I began reading I convinced myself that it wasn't "my kind" of book - probably because it wasn't what I was expecting. I decided to pursue with it and the next day I took ...  Read the complete review