Author : Pittacus Lore
Title : I Am Number Four
Ok so I read this book a few months ago and I’m very sorry to the author and to the fans of this book, BUT, it has to be one of the most boring books I’ve ever read. Everything was plain and it didn’t help that I’m not particularly fond of reading stories told in the first person’s view, using the pronoun ‘I’.
The book started off telling about the history of the planet Lorien. Me being a sucker for a good history lesson, enjoyed that few chapters and then it just went downhill from there. As I said before, everything was plain and ordinary, though being an alien refugee is not ordinary at all.
Number Four, or John, is just your average student who just so happens to be an alien who’s hunted by some other aliens. To be honest, that boy is just plain boring. I don’t know how Sara (his girlfriend) became his girlfriend in the first place.
Romance aside, the fight scene of the book (which takes the last few chapters) is terribly boring. I was anticipating the fight but when it came, I wished I could just skip to the last page of the book because it was too long and draggy up to the point where it became predictable. It’s like those scenes where after fighting one batch of baddies, another comes, then they fight and defeat batch #2, batch #3 comes and they repeat the process. It is the most boring part of the book.
I for one would recommend that you go watch the movie instead of reading the book. This book won’t help you kill time because you’ll end up wanna kill the book instead.
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Jjang~! My first book review! (is this counted as a review? or is this just giving comments? or are reviews memang pun giving comments?) Though it’s not exactly according to format but it suffice for a beginner like me. And plus, this is a blog so things don’t really have to be formal around here. So I guess I’ll be doing reviews more often now since I like to procrastinate so much and I would also like to share with you guys the books I’ve read.
Till next time =]
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