January 12, 2011

Third Time's a Charm

In this case, third book's a charm. I actually learned of the book I Am Number Four on a facebook ad. It popped up in my side bar saying something a long the lines of... fans of the Hunger Games will love... or If you enjoyed the Hunger Games and wish there were more... I don't know what I actually expected the book to be about. Besides reading the back of the book, I didn't really research its contents too much. I just picked it up at the book store one day and bought it. I'm a sucker for ads. I never realized it was about aliens. I enjoyed reading something a little bit different for a change. I haven't read an alien novel in a while. The writing was a bit like the Hunger Games but the story was nothing like it at all. The author kept me enthralled throughout and I had a hard time putting it down. I love the detail put into it, he really paints a picture of what Lorien looked like and really brought each character to life. They all had their own personality and stuck out strongly among each other, no one blended in or was lost. Even the bad guys were unique, described like nothing I have read before. Every so often I had the feeling like I had read this book before but I realized it was a bit similar to Stephenie Meyer's The Host. But not enough to make me feel as though the author didn't have his own ideas.
Beside being the third book in my 52 books challenge it also covers the first book in my "whats in a name challenge". I need to read book with a number in the name. Now I have.

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