BOOK REVIEW: The Power Of Six(Pittacus Lore)

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,
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I doubt many of you will have noticed this as the blogs spam filter is pretty good but can people please stop the random spam comments, as even if you lot can't see them, I still have to accept or decline them being published,
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BOOK REVIEW: The Legend of Deathwalker (David Gemmell)

Book: The Legend of Deathwalker

Author: David Gemmell

Rating: 8.5/10


A story from the past of Druss the Legend, One of Gemmell's best characters.

In this story it starts with Druss on the walls of Dros Delnoch speaking to a fellow soldier facing Ulric and his Nadir horde( the setting of another book) and he starts telling the story of this book and thus the main story begins....
Druss is competing in a game of nations in Gulgothir as the Drenai wrestler after injuring the real one in a practise fight, he is his usual
un-defeatable self and against the odds makes it to the final. Now he is against the Gothir fighter Klay and it is set to be a contest of giants,
There's just one set back; The mad king of the Gothir has decreed that Druss will lose in a "prophecy" and if he wins it could be seen as a Drenai attempt to destabilise the Gothir nation.

Or so the Drenai diplomats tell him.

However the people behind the mad-king on the throne need to make sure that Druss loses and send armed fighters to injure or kill him outside a bar.

This plan backfires drastically when Klay witnesses the attack and gets involved to save Druss, and is badly wounded.

When news of this reaches the public all bets on the fight are cancelled and riots break out all over the city,


In the following chaos Druss learns of healing stones said to be hidden in the lands of the Nadir, only these will restore Klay, if they exist.


So Druss and his friend Sieben the poet travel to the shrine of the father of the Nadir to find the stones, but when he arrives he finds himself entangled in a battle between a few hundred nadir and a few thousand Gothir warriors trying to crush their sacred site.

and while the battle rages Druss must walk the land of Death to save spirits trapped by demons, If he wants to find the jewels on top of fighting a Gothir army that outnumbers them 100-1

Can Druss succeed?
and find out how he gets his nadir name, read it.


The twist with the combat and magic in Hell is also nice, but I don't want to spoil that for you...






I can't get enough of David Gemmell and his various books set in the same medieval land.
  This is yet another brilliant one, It's a good stand alone story but I think it would be better If you also read Legend, but either order would work, they're both about Druss.
If you haven't started reading Gemmell yet your missing out big time ! check out my other reviews of his books and then get them and read them :)

Hope you found this review helpful, (and sorry I haven't posted in a while and  if it's a little short and light on the details than usual,)
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