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Finished reading "I Am Number Four". I got it for about $2 on a fire sale over the Christmas season and it only got delivered yesterday. It was on my reading groups list of books so decided to give it a try.
It might be that this book is just aimed at a much younger audience, but I found it very predictable and filled with cliché after cliché. It doesn't really offer anything new and at times feels like a slightly different rewrite of the "Roswell" TV series.
I find it had to believe that the main character apparently experiences love at first sight and within a couple of days he and the girl of his dreams are an item. A bit difficult to swallow. Not to mention the obligatory geeky outcast friend and the rivalry with the football hero.
Another thing that bugs me is that the book was written/published in 2010 and in it he describes a poster of the solar system as "all nine planets and the Sun". Pluto has been demoted to dwarf planet since 2006. A bit of research goes a long way!
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