Galand Nuchols: I AM Number Four

Sunday, February 21, 2016

I AM Number Four

Pittacus Lore, the author of I Am Number Four, has put together a thriller for all science fiction readers, especially daring youth ready to meet an over powering challenge. Lore has created well developed characters you might meet in any community or school, yet she makes the reader believe they are aliens from a distant planet, Lorien, hiding out in our world, hiding from those who are determined to destroy the last of their civilization and ours. Normal earthling teens are pulled into the aliens fight. It may be that the six remaining Loriens and selected earth teens will be the ones that wake our world to the the dangers it is facing.
For science fiction fans I AM NUMBER FOUR is a must read.

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