Brady Mullin
The Power Of Six,
Written By: Cynthia Lore
In life, you can’t judge people by their outside, you have to get to know them, and find out if they are hiding something, like being an alien. This is exactly what The Power Of Six, by Cynthia Lore is like. It has suspense and leaves you thinking. In this book (The second book in the Lorien Legacies series) the main characters are Lorians or aliens with special abilities, from a planet that has blown up.
The characters all have to keep the secret that they are not human while the government tracks them down. This must be hard to go through. Imagine living your whole life in fear that you will be discovered and put in jail or killed. Some of our characters like Marina are normal, while other characters like John Smith use their powers for bad things like burning down a school. During the book each character has their own experience, for example one chapter will be from John Smith’s point, and the other chapter could be from Marina’s point of view. This style of writing is very unique, it is not like other books where it is clear after the first sentence who is talking.
This book grabs your attention right from the opening pages, by starting out with an event happening. “Those of us who aren’t lost. Those of us still alive” (Lord 1). This makes you ask a lot of questions. For example…
Why are people lost? Why are some of them dead? What made them die? These questions make you want to read more and find out more explanations. But, these ideas are a novelty that wears off after a while. Lord uses a lot of adjectives; I’m not saying this is bad, but it does make the story and the plot drag on. Also the story is very hard to follow. There are tons of characters, and as I stated earlier each chapter is from someone else's point of view. It gets to a point where you have to map out who is where and what they are doing. Even though there is a lot of action happening it is predictable. For example when John Smith and Six are running from the police, you know that they will make it out, and the story just gives you the mood that this will happen. But Lore does do some good things in this book, for example she leaves all of her chapters on a cliff hanger, making you want to come back to the book to read what happens next. For example at the end of one of the chapters Marina says “And by the worst, I mean them." (Lord 58), this made me read the next chapter trying to find out who they were. But Lore just skipped to other characters, it really frustrated me, but it did its job in making me want to read more. Eventually it got so bad I quit, and stopped reading at roughly 150 pages in,
All in all I would recommend this book to people who like mystery, and science fiction novels. It has a lot to do with the powers of the characters and having to keep secrets. You also have to figure out who the people they are hiding from are and what they want. I would not at all recommend this book to people like me, who hate having to remember tons of details and like the action coming right to them. Personally I would rate this book a 5 out of 10, but my friend who recommended it to me rated it a 9 out of 10. It just depends on if you like mystery books or not. You know a book is bad when it even says it is not good. "This is no fairy tale" (Lord 79).
In life, you can’t judge people by their outside, you have to get to know them, and find out if they are hiding something, like being an alien. This is exactly what The Power Of Six, by Cynthia Lore is like. It has suspense and leaves you thinking. In this book (The second book in the Lorien Legacies series) the main characters are Lorians or aliens with special abilities, from a planet that has blown up.
The characters all have to keep the secret that they are not human while the government tracks them down. This must be hard to go through. Imagine living your whole life in fear that you will be discovered and put in jail or killed. Some of our characters like Marina are normal, while other characters like John Smith use their powers for bad things like burning down a school. During the book each character has their own experience, for example one chapter will be from John Smith’s point, and the other chapter could be from Marina’s point of view. This style of writing is very unique, it is not like other books where it is clear after the first sentence who is talking.
This book grabs your attention right from the opening pages, by starting out with an event happening. “Those of us who aren’t lost. Those of us still alive” (Lord 1). This makes you ask a lot of questions. For example…
Why are people lost? Why are some of them dead? What made them die? These questions make you want to read more and find out more explanations. But, these ideas are a novelty that wears off after a while. Lord uses a lot of adjectives; I’m not saying this is bad, but it does make the story and the plot drag on. Also the story is very hard to follow. There are tons of characters, and as I stated earlier each chapter is from someone else's point of view. It gets to a point where you have to map out who is where and what they are doing. Even though there is a lot of action happening it is predictable. For example when John Smith and Six are running from the police, you know that they will make it out, and the story just gives you the mood that this will happen. But Lore does do some good things in this book, for example she leaves all of her chapters on a cliff hanger, making you want to come back to the book to read what happens next. For example at the end of one of the chapters Marina says “And by the worst, I mean them." (Lord 58), this made me read the next chapter trying to find out who they were. But Lore just skipped to other characters, it really frustrated me, but it did its job in making me want to read more. Eventually it got so bad I quit, and stopped reading at roughly 150 pages in,
All in all I would recommend this book to people who like mystery, and science fiction novels. It has a lot to do with the powers of the characters and having to keep secrets. You also have to figure out who the people they are hiding from are and what they want. I would not at all recommend this book to people like me, who hate having to remember tons of details and like the action coming right to them. Personally I would rate this book a 5 out of 10, but my friend who recommended it to me rated it a 9 out of 10. It just depends on if you like mystery books or not. You know a book is bad when it even says it is not good. "This is no fairy tale" (Lord 79).
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