The Fall of Five
Lorien Legacies #4
by Pittacus Lore

My rating: 5 / 5
Genre: YA sci-fi

Spoiler notice: The following review may contain some spoilers for the previous books in the series, starting with I Am Number Four.

Now that 5 out of 6 of the remaining Garde are together (plus one), it’s time to think about bringing the fight to the Mogodorians. While they inventory their chests and get some training in, the absent Five sends up a signal for them to come find him. Do they finally have what it takes to defeat the Mog leader? Or will they crash and burn?

This was my favorite book of the series so far. The dynamic of the different Garde who grew up with very different lifestyles, combined with the human element, provide an interesting backdrop to the action. The fight scenes didn’t make me resort to scanning like they have in the past (or maybe they were shorter/fewer). There are some epic, cheer-worthy moments early in the book, and then some intrigue and action later too. Though I did predict the climax to some degree, it still had me hooked.

Though I don’t particularly care about Sarah or Sarah and John’s relationship, I’m glad we’ve at least skirted the love triangle. There’s still an element of pairing everyone off, but it gets right to the edge of what would be annoying for me without quite going over. There is a capture-the-flag-type training scene that involves a lot of head hopping (since this series has changed POVs between 3 (or 4?) characters ever since book #2), and it was really confusing, but I think that’s mostly because the Kindle book doesn’t have the (slightly) different fonts for the different POVs. I didn’t always even realize we’d switched POV, especially if it happened at the end of a page, and would get lost, but the print book probably makes that a lot more clear. That’s a formatting thing that the publishers should definitely take into account, but not something I’m going to hold against the book. This book definitely left me wanting to know what happens next, and though #2 was a little shaky for me, I’ve enjoyed the series overall so far and look forward to continuing it.

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