Book: The Power Of Six
Author: Pittacus Lore
Rating: 8/10
The sequel to "I am Number Four" this book continues the story and it is getting much better.
The surviving members of the Garde of Lorien ,hiding on planet Earth, are finally gaining their legacies and finding each other, But their emerging powers only make the Mogadorians more intent on finding and killing them before they are powerful enough to confront them.
(I will state early on that you pretty much have to read the first book "I am Number Four" before reading this one as there's little repeated explanations. find my review of it here:
http://devonianbookreviewer.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/book-review-i-am-number-four-pittacus.html )
Continuing from the previous book, John(Four),Six and their human friend Sam are on the run across America following the attack on the town of Paradise by the Mogadorians. Both their Cepans are dead and they are now labelled terrorists by the Government.
Meanwhile on another continent number 7 is stuck in a religious house, her chest hidden, her Cepan blinded from her duties in her new life, How long is it until the Mogadorians find them, she must convince Adelina to move on.
A mysterious girl arrives at the convent place Seven is at but so do the first signs of Mogadorians in the area and Seven must get her chest open and convince Adelina to leave.
This book is actually rather hard to review as the story,as brilliant as it is, is extremely complex and jumps a lot, so I'll do my best but it may not be up to my usual standard (but the fact the story is hard to review isn't a bad thing in this case)
Four,Six and Sam return to paradise to follow a clue left by Sam's father who was kidnapped by the mogs years ago. Despite the danger Sam and John visit Sarah's house and get captured by the FBI while Six is left behind fighting Mogadorians who have stolen Johns chest.
Escaping from the FBI they hear news of trouble and magic in Spain where number 7 is. They decide to split up.
The story then becomes less jumpy and has longer sections for each part.
John,Sam and Bernie head off to the Mogadorian base to get the chest back, using shared power of invisibility due to one of the strange stones, they sneak in and find the chests n the rooms with the Pikens-beasts ofMmogadore 30 feet tall, as they exited the cage deep inside the enemy base the invisibility wares off, panic ensues but as they run the stumble across a prison in which another Loric is being held, they set him free and together the 3 of them fight their towards the exit, but will they all make it out?
Meanwhile Six had travelled to where 7 is and arrives in the middle of a pitched battle( which occurs as part of the Number 7 storyline in the constantly changing bit) Seven and the mysterious young girl who turns out to be another Loric from a second ship that escaped are fighting off swarms with the help of a Chimaera and Human allies, but can they all make it out alive?
Hopefully my comments will be more useful. Don't be put off by this review. I really like this book, and I may be making it sound more chaotic than it is. It's just so full of action and two story lines that I'd need pages to cover the middle where it does change and have a lot happening all the time.
I really liked both books and am awaiting the release of the third in the series. I would thoroughly recommend you read it as both this and I am no.4 are great books and well worth a look at.
Hope you found this review helpful,
The Devonian Book Reviewer
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