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"More stabs, grabs, and snarky confabs, with rising stakes to push readers on." — Kirkus Reviews
PRAISE FOR Ashfall Legacy: "The 'Lorien Legacies' author returns with an action-packed new series opener. Sydney and his cohort of space cadets are all well fleshed-out. The role humanity plays in this intergalactic space war will draw in fans of the superhero genre. Equal parts humorous and thrilling, Sydney’s adventures through the universe will keep fans of Lore’s previous series satisfied." — School Library Journal
"Lore reels in readers with imaginatively conceived characters and a snarky, relatable first-person narrative. An action-packed conclusion cracks the door for a sequel." — Publishers Weekly
"The I Am Number Four (2011) author’s legions of existing fans will be pleased to find the same explosive twists and witty humor that marked his other books, and readers unfamiliar with Lore who love epic, sprawling worlds and fast-paced storytelling should also be directed to this action-packed sf adventure." — Booklist
PRAISE FOR THE I AM NUMBER FOUR SERIES: “Number Four is a hero for this generation.” — Michael Bay, director of Transformers
“I Am Number Four is a breathless page-turner of a sci-fi novel that will have readers rooting for the teen alien who must unleash his firepower to save himself, his human friends, and the planet. So gear up, sci-fi fans, the battle for Earth is on and there’s a new kid in town!” — Amazon.com
“There’s genuine suspense…. It’s easy to get lost in the world of the sweet teen from another planet.” — Chicago Tribune
“Terrifically propulsive.” — ALA Booklist
“Action-packed.” — Publishers Weekly
ALA Booklist
Terrifically propulsive.
Michael Bay
PRAISE FOR THE I AM NUMBER FOUR SERIES: “Number Four is a hero for this generation.
Booklist
"The I Am Number Four (2011) author’s legions of existing fans will be pleased to find the same explosive twists and witty humor that marked his other books, and readers unfamiliar with Lore who love epic, sprawling worlds and fast-paced storytelling should also be directed to this action-packed sf adventure."
Chicago Tribune
There’s genuine suspense…. It’s easy to get lost in the world of the sweet teen from another planet.
Chicago Tribune
There’s genuine suspense…. It’s easy to get lost in the world of the sweet teen from another planet.
Booklist
"The I Am Number Four (2011) author’s legions of existing fans will be pleased to find the same explosive twists and witty humor that marked his other books, and readers unfamiliar with Lore who love epic, sprawling worlds and fast-paced storytelling should also be directed to this action-packed sf adventure."
Kirkus Reviews
2022-05-10
The fates of Earth and the intergalactic community alike come to hang in the balance amid visions of doom in this middle volume.
Picking up without a recap where Ashfall Legacy (2021) left off, half-human Syd and his multispecies squad of allies, reluctant and otherwise, flee but are ultimately forced to turn and face Capt. Reno and her associates. They, being full humans and therefore superstrong and (so they think) invulnerable everywhere except on Earth, violently believe that they are destined to rule rather than being genocidally wiped out. Even readers fresh from the opener may have trouble picking up the basic premise and the backstory, but that doesn’t really matter as the pseudonymous authors stick to an easy-to-follow “spaceship chases and captures with occasional explosions in a pint-sized universe” sort of plot and give a cast featuring aliens diverse enough to include sentient gas and fungus plenty of chances to exchange banter and values. All of the actual agency continues to come from human or part-human characters who are, notwithstanding an impassive one with a Japanese name, uniformly White-presenting. A climactic battle leaves the human supremacist party at least neutralized, but thanks to an enigmatic space monster’s “flickering whorls of temporal energy,” troubling glimpses of a future Syd destroying a planet that looks a lot like ours leaves some unfinished business for sequels to settle.
More stabs, grabs, and snarky confabs, with rising stakes to push readers on. (Science fiction. 13-17)
