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The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia,
Number Two in England,
And Number Three in Kenya.
I am Number Four.
I am next.

Catchy, isn’t it?



Unfortunately, the story itself isn’t quite as catchy. I was rather underwhelmed, to be honest.

The plot was ok but somehow it only managed to hold my attention for a period of about 10 minutes. After that, I found myself getting bored and my thoughts kept drifting off to random topics like "what’s for dinner" or "shit, I really need to iron that white blouse of mine".

While some parts of the story were quite entertaining, other parts were just so cliché that I almost gave up on the book entirely. I found myself slapping my forehead more often than is healthy and several times I surprised myself (and random people around me) by shouting out loud "Oh come on! Seriously?"

The scenario in a nutshell:

Alien hides out in small town, alien falls in love with human girl, alien goes to party with human girl, party escalates, house starts burning, alien saves human girl from flames (said alien is resistant to fire), alien tells human girl about true identity, human girl has no trouble at all accepting this, alien and human girl lie to police about rescue that should have been impossible, nasty reporter dude gets suspicious of alien and fishy rescue story, chapter ends with reporter dude yelling after alien "I will find the truth! I always do!"

Now tell me, is this worn out or is this worn out?

And this was just one of the scenes that made me want to bang my head on the table. There were more...

The characters also felt kind of flat to me. John aka #4 was nice enough (imagining him as Alex Pettyfer actually helped a lot), I also liked Sam, Henri and even Mark but just like John’s and Sarah’s relationship, the girl herself was dull and just plain boring. I didn’t feel the love, there was absolutely no tension, no tingling, no butterflies, nada, zip, zero, zilch. Just nothing at all that could have triggered any kind of emotion on my part.

I think the characters I liked best were Six (she really kicked ass) and the dog. o_O

Overall this was a solid two stars read for me, seeing as the story did entertain me at times (especially towards the end) and I made it through the book, but it was definitely nothing memorable for me.

I’m really looking forward to the movie, though. I think this might be one of those rare cases where the movie is actually better than the book. We’ll see...