What's in a Name?

The Power of Six is the second of the Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore.  The story of nine children known as the Garde and their guardians, Cepan, who escaped from another world.  They are being hunted down by the Mogadoriens, who destroyed their planet, and now want to destroy them.  This book bounce between John, number four, and Merina , number 7, as the narrators.

John, along with his best friend Sam and Six, are on the run after the events in Paradise Ohio.  They are unsure of what to do next  now that Henri is dead.  All they have left is John's Chest which he spends the better part of the book reluctant to open, and the other half having no idea what half the stuff inside is.  When they discover a secret about Sam's missing dad, they head back to Ohio, only to find serious trouble.

Merina has been living as an orphan in a convent in Spain for year now.  Her Cepan is posing as a nun, and she is no longer a believer in their mission.  Merina is trying to live up to her destiny, and she searches for the other.  She knows about John, and she is having dreams about Six, but does not know how to reach them on her own.  Please she has a suspicion that the Mogadoriens have found her.

I really enjoyed I am Number Four, and I wanted so badly to like this book too, but I just could not do it.  The author contradicts himself from the first book. Like Loriens only fall in love once, just kidding I have decided that I like John and Six together, so they can have multiple loves.  Or taking a character I really liked from the first book, Sarah, and making her into a spineless and unloyal witch.

Then there is the whole Merina story, while better than John, Six and Sam story, I was really having trouble seeing how the stories would come together.  When they did intersect, it felt like the author went, oh yeah, I forgot to tie my two storylines together so here goes.

Still don't have any clue why the Mogadoriens destroyed their world, and now what to kill all the Garde. Plus why is the book even called The Power of Six, she is not even a narrator or making so dramatic discover of her powers in this book. This book left me feeling very disappointed with the whole thing.  I definitely will not be finishing this series.

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