Of course, the servant species works just as hard but they get no 'magic.' Evolution does /not/ work that way and it is never explained why only one humanoid race developed powers.Ĥ. The aliens got their powers as a gift from the planet for protecting it and reversing the damage they did to it. I know! Ao that the adults accompanying the children have a purpose!! Also, the author doesn't seem to want to refer to them as slaves or servants, which waters down the whole situation and makes it even more convoluted.ģ. why? Why would you put the power training in the hands of the un-powered species? The powered species seems to be just as numerous, if not more so, then the un-powered species. The servant species of aliens are powerless, but their life goals are to train the powerful mutants. So the adult alien is another species of humanoid alien from the planet, but a sort of servant species.Ģ. It's like the author realized a bunch of little kids couldn't crash land on the planet and run amok so he gave them each a single adult - but the kids have to be the special ones.

John has a guardian from his planet, but the guardian has no special abilities. I'm going to give a breakdown of some of the flaws with the story.ġ. I Am Number Four is about John Smith, a teenage boy who is actually an alien from another planet. I feel like the concept of the novel was born before the characters and logic wasn't worked out around it. The language and phrasing is really simplistic, which wasn't bad, but the story itself makes no sense whatsoever. His writing is dull and boring in every possible way. It's like, 'OH I FORGOT TO MENTION WHAT MY POWERS ARE!' 'OH, WAIT! MY NAME IS -'Ĥ. Lore tends to forget the most significant details regarding his plot. Henri makes me want to bang my head against the wall. John seems to have a false sense of bravado. The characters are all bland and pathetic.

Which seems like it's not a big of a deal, but it is! He randomly places it and tries to get his readers to understand his reading and it's quite awful.Ģ. Lore can't use the word 'and' in the proper way. I decided to give it time for me to find that little 'spark.' But, no.ġ. At least I hope it didn't because I don't really hear much about this one. Thank God this book didn't live up to its hype like Twilight did. This book is so strange and awful, it's hard to explain exactly why I dislike it.

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