The Power Of Six

     The Power Of Six, is the second book in the young adult fiction series The Lorien Legacies. Written by Pittacus Lore. The Story is about alien children that look just like us that were sent from their planet Lorien after the attack by the Magadorians, to Earth. The Magodorians next target is Earth. The kids were numbered and sent to Earth with an individual guardian. Although, the problem is, there is a lot more of Magadorians, and they're more powerful. Yet, the kids are expected to fight, and defeat them, the kids are just starting to develop their legacies and learning to use them. Yet, using them is still foreign. That is to say, they aren't quit ready to fight the Magodorians yet. That's not exactly their decision to make though.

      The story is told by various members of the Garde: Number Four (John Smith), who is on the run with Sam, Six, and his dog Bernie Kosar, and Number Seven (Marina), who's hiding at Santa Teresa, a convent in Spain. While John, Number Six and Sam try to stay ahead of the Mogadorians while searching for the other surviving Loric, Number Seven searches for news of John after his heroic battle at the school that came at the end of I Am Number Four. They realize that sitting and waiting to be caught, or hiding, or running is not the solution to defeat the Magodorians. They must unite. John, Six, and Sam are on the run trying to find the others. On their way, John opens his Loric chest and gets tracked by the Magodorians without his knowledge. Sam convinces Six and John that they need to go back to Paradise, their home, because he believes that his, "abducted" father has left something for them. While in Paradise, John reunites with his love Sarah and she rats him out to the police. Sam and John get caught but Six helps them escape. Although, the Magodorians are still right on their tail. And they still have a goal to get to the others. Will they get caught? Or lead them to the rest of the Garde?

     This story is also told by Number Seven, Marina. She is stuck in a religious convent, and stuck with a denial guardian of any of their Lorien background. Seven is basically on her own. Except for her new and first friend that she has made at Santa Teresa, Ella. Like I said, her Guardian wont help her even though she knows that the Magodorian are right on her case. So she drugs Adelina to open her chest with her, only to get tracked just like John did. More people in her life know about Lorien then she would have ever expected. Now she needs to make decisions that are best for her, her friends, and Garde. While finding the others. 

     This book is constantly has more and more surprises and action in every chapter. It is very entertaining and sucks you right in. The second book is not as good as the first. But I still loved it! This series is definitely a memorable book. I loved the characters, the suspense, romance, and confusion even! I feel like I really got to know the characters and learned a lot from them. Also the book brings up and makes you think about the possibilities of aliens. Could they be out there and look just like us? Fighting for our lives? Peoples have theories out there, this book just helped settle mine. It constantly has you thinking and wondering. 

     All in all, I feel that the book was very good and fun to read. It had a lot of stuff going on, but it just made you keep thinking. I really got into it and enjoyed reading it. I would suggest this book to people interested in suspense and mystery and action. Truly I'm not that into the whole alien stuff, but this author did amazing at not making a weird alien book, but a GREAT non-weird alien book!

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