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The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore

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Brief synopsis (no spoilers)
We've got numbers 4-10 together, and they're forming as a team. The Mogs and the government are completely entwined. The group needs to figure out how to take on the biggest alien army ever, embedded with the strongest government in the world. They're going to need all the help they can get!

 Category
Sci-Fi, YA

 Why I chose this book
Next in series

 My personal opinion (the review)
Treachery and subplots abound, yay! Keeps things interesting. I'm very disappointed in the addition of a couple f-bombs! Totally unnecessary. I'm also a bit worried about John and Sarah getting a little too close, physically, but they keep things innocent so far. The attitudes and character traits of the main characters are coming together, overcoming vast differences. Still a great book, but fell short of excellent.

 Warnings
Language: 2 f-bombs. Boo!
Violence: fairly frequent, not very graphic
"Adult" situations: getting kinda sketchy (2 teens share a bed, but out of convenience, not yet for romance)
Death: frequent, and of major characters

 Movie rating equivalent
PG-16 (more than PG-13, not quite R)

 Protagonist description
Good guys are not all good, bad guys are not all bad. Too many focus characters to choose a protagonist

 Point of view of story
First person, flips around between narrators constantly- sometimes even within chapters

 Book length
Medium

 Story flow
Excellent

 Grammar and spelling issues
None

 Character connection (no spoilers)
Some of the backstories I wanted have started coming out, so nothing new
For series:
Independent or integral (stand-alone or back story dependent)
Integral

Series review as a whole
I'm really enjoying this series! Something that's a bit weird to me is that the e-book versions have excerpts of around 4-5 other books in the series. So, the actual books are done around the 85 percent mark. But back to enjoying the series, I feel connections with the characters, I love the special powers, and I like that they're coming together. I believe this will win my Favorite Series of the Year Award.

If you only have time for one, read: (which one)
Start at the beginning (I Am Number Four)

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