'BR' 4: The Power Of Six

Title : The Power of Six

Author : Pittacus Lore

The sequel to the movie that had my classmates swoon over the actors and actresses, I Am Number Four, is The Power of Six. This book focuses, or half focuses, on number Seven/Marina and her days in Santa Teresa convent in Spain. The other focus of the book is back to Number Four, Sam and Number Six and not forgetting their ‘dog’ Bernie Kosar/Hadley.

The book starts off with Marina’s point of view (POV) and it centers on her frustration on not being able to leave the convent/orphanage and her guardian has seem to lost her grip on the reality that they are being hunted etc and has succumbed to the routine life of the convent. With her Legacies (powers) developing and no means of training from her guardian, Marina’s powers grew and she somehow managed to control them and also use them. Marina has the power of healing and also breathing underwater. What a coincidence seeing how the name marina is associated with the sea. In the convent, a new girl of 7years old appears as a new orphan taken in by the convent befriends Marina, her name is Ella. The two became a team, two best friends. Of course, after you find out what/who Ella actually is, she’s not that little anymore. Eventually, Santa Teresa was attacked and Number Six showed up to help them fight off them bad aliens.

The book alternates between POVs and the readers will notice that the font has changed and also the setting. The pronoun of ‘I’ now belongs to another person, one who I have been dreading, Number Four. He and his two friends are now on the run from the Government since they found counterfeit documents in Four’s previous home and now he and his late guardian are on top of the Most Wanted list in USA, for being thought as terrorists. The quartet (dog included) hop from city to city before finally going back to Paradise, Ohio to Sam’s house to retrieve something in his backyard which was left by Sam’s father. There, lover boy Number Four went to meet up with Sarah and eventually got his sorry ass arrested because apparently, his love Sarah was texting the FBI during their meeting. And of course Number Six busted him and Sam out.

Summary aside, I have to say, Number Four is still as boring as ever and I actually skipped his big fight scene at the end of the book and jumped to Marina’s fight scene seeing how his is always so damn boring even with the addition of a new Number Nine. I’d rather have the whole book talk about Marina than the current state of it.

Though I have to say, alternating between POVs is a very smart move by the author because he always leaves some cliffhangers before jumping to another person’s POV. It can be frustrating but being as impatient as I am, I just skip the next POV and look for where the font starts again and read from there. By doing so, the author is able to keep us glued to the book because of suspense. I for one, fell for this trick.

Even though I like this book, but I still don’t like Number Four because he is so damn boring!!! Like omg..I have never read about anyone so boring before! It was such a bore reading his POVs and the only part I liked was when he got arrested. It served him right for not listening to Six and Sam.

I won't be surprised if this book ends up being another long series like the Harry Porter series because the ending of this book was pretty hanging, if you get what I mean