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The Fate of Ten
The Fate of Ten
The Fate of Ten
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The Fate of Ten

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The sixth and penultimate book of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series!

For years the Garde have fought the Mogadorians in secret, but now the invasion has begun. John is on the front lines in New York City. The odds are against him, but his best friend, Sam, has just inexplicably developed a Legacy—and he isn’t the only one. As the pair tracks down Five and Nine amidst the chaos, they meet another teen with powers. But is she a friend or foe?

Meanwhile, Six, Marina, and Adam are trapped in Mexico. They got into the Sanctuary and were able to awaken the force hidden within, but they don’t have any way to contact the others…and the Mogs are coming for them in full force.

The Garde are stretched thin. Their only shot at saving the world is to eliminate the Mogadorian leader—but his fate is now irrevocably tied with Ella’s. They can’t destroy one without the other.  And if the Garde can’t find another way to stop the Mogs, humanity will suffer the same fate as the Loric: annihilation.

Michael Bay, director of Transformers, raved: “Number Four is a hero for this generation.” This epic young adult series is perfect for fans of action-packed science fiction like The Fifth Wave series by Rick Yancey, The Maze Runner series by James Dashner, and Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.

The battle for Earth’s survival wages on. Read the explosive series finale: United as One.

And don’t miss the first book in the brand new I Am Number Four spin-off series: Generation One.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateSep 1, 2015
ISBN9780062395863
The Fate of Ten
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Pittacus Lore

Pittacus Lore is Lorien's ruling Elder. He has been on Earth preparing for the war that will decide Earth's fate. He finished recounting the story of the invasion of Earth in the I Am Number Four series and is now ready to tell another story. His whereabouts are unknown.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is another "teenagers out to save the world" series, except they are aliens and they are trying to fight off a race of aliens (Mogadorians) who have destroyed their planet and are not set to take over earth. Sound a bit odd? It is - but it is also an interesting read.Number Four is the first Lorian to tell the story. He has been on the run his entire life with his Cepan (guide) moving him from town to town across the US. Four (John is his human name) hides in plain sight in small towns until life there becomes compromised in some way and then they move on. They end up in Paradise for longer than usual and it is there that Henri (the Cepan) begins to tell John what his life is really all about - how he was sent from Loric as the planet was consumed with 9 other children and the legacies of Lorian. These legacies are special talents that grow as the children mature and will be used to defend themselves and remake Loric in the future.image from LibraryThingFollowing a fiery explosion and the heart-breaking death of Henri, Four meets the next of his group, Six. She is completely different from Four - confident and in control of her legacies in a way he only wishes. Four, Six and Sam, a friend from Paradise, escape Paradise and hit the road. They find an abandoned house and heal and train and grow their abilities.But, the unknown Mogadorians and Sam's missing father haunt them. As do the scars burned in their legs. Each time one of the original Garde is caught and killed by the Mogadorians, a scar is seared into their legs. The story shifts a bit in the next book and more of the Garde are introduced - the story telling moves between the characters until they all end up in the penthouse apartment of Six at the top of the John Hancock building in Chicago. As the Garde gather and train and learn from one another more and more of the story comes out. It is their responsibility to carry on their legacy. But, at what cost? They are after all only children. All of them have lost their Cepan's and some have lost the chests of their Loric tools. But the end of this book the group is: Four, Six, Eight, Nine and Ten plus Sarah (Four's girlfriend) and Sam his friend.image from LibraryThingThe story shifts as Five joins the Garde. He adds a layer of darkness and tension. Sam also is able to reunite with his Father who disappeared long ago - he was one of the Greeters who welcomed the Lorian spaceship to earth. I found this book harder to understand. The storytelling switches between characters - each using the first person. I was sometimes a bit confused by who was talking. The font is different for each - but not drastically. I found it distracting from the storyline.I like parts of these - but get so tired of the teenage angst that is layered in these stories. They remind me of the Series of Unfortunate Events in that Pittacus Lore is also a character in the story. He is the one that Sam's father met on earth - but how can that be since only the children made it to the planet. Each book leaves unanswered questions. I am not sure how dedicated I am to stick with these though. It would be much easier to just wait and read them all at once...
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    So I'm torn on this. After I started reading the book, I learned that James Frey (yes THAT James Frey) was kind of behind this book. Now, people make mistakes, but Frey isn't making a mistake. He just seems to be a horrible person. So the backstory is that he has created essentially a writer factory, where he pays graduate students a couple hundred dollars ($250 was what I saw reported) and then they also get a smaller percentage of profits on the book - if it's made into a movie, etc. The actual writer gets 30% or so. They don't have any further rights to the work, they're on the hook for follow-up books, they may or may not be noted as the author according to Frey's whims and they can't talk about their work with the press. So...seems like there could be an interesting book about how horrible James Frey is...preferably one not written by him and one that doesn't give him any profits.Anyway, back to I Am Number Four... its a YA Novel...it's light, it's formulaic, it's fun. It's a very quick read and the characters aren't overly dumb with their decisions (most of the time). I'll probably borrow the rest of the series from my library over the next month or two.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Picked up toward the end ... the last 50 pages renewed my hope for the next ones in the series and might have possibly changed my mind about reading the others.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Maybe my mistake was to see the movie first. But in general, books are better than the movies...There are exceptions to the rule apparently. The story itself was interesting. The premise was good and I wanted to learn more about the characters. The main problem was the writing. It felt emotionally flat and too descriptive. I skipped a good portion of the second half...
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I really enjoy this series! This book (like the last one) ended very abruptly, but that's ok. I actually love how it ended! These books are not exceptional reads, but they're action packed & fast paced, full. There's drama & there's humor. Every once in a while a book like this is just what I need.
























  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    OK--James Frey hired the right kid to do this book as opposed to the Fall of Five which was miserable. TYpical Lorien stuff even though it had the WORST ending possible in that you now have to wait for the sequel but nicely done.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    As will always be true, the book was better than the movie. There is more character development and foraging out of the plot. If you saw the movie and enjoyed it--or even if you didn't enjoy the movie, the books is a good read. And as cute as the Pettyfer kid is, I could not picture him as John while reading. The she change between book and film is evident-- John being younger in the book than he is portrayed in the film Hero is such an awesome & moveable character and Sarah, in my opinion, is more likeable in the book than in the movie. Good book, glad I found it, can't wait to see where this series goes.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I expected a lot more from this story than I got. The characters are too simplified and generic to be all that interesting, and that's saying something given that two of them (or three, I guess) are from another planet!

    I read a LOT of young adult urban fantasy, so I have high expectations for teenage characters, esp. when the story is told in 1st person by a teenager. I don't expect them to have the wisdom and maturity of an adult, of course, but I do expect them to have the kind of depth, complexity, and originality that makes them so appealing to so many readers. John and his friends are nice enough, but they're basically cookie cutter characters that could fit into just about any bland, ordinary TV show or story about teenagers.

    My favorite aspect of the audio narration was the narrator's voice for Henri.

    My favorite character was Bernie Kosar, the "guardian angel" beagle.

    My favorite part of the story was when it was over!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Perhaps my sense of what makes good young adult science fiction is off, but this struck me as a remarkably bland plot conveyed through mediocre writing. The basic frame - aliens invade a fruitful planet, which sends a rocket to Earth with nine small kids in hopes that they'll someday be able to repopulate the species - makes no biological, political, or logistical sense. The book is full of details like that - the evil aliens can't kill the good ones except in numerical order, unless two of the good ones meet, in which case they are all vulnerable. Why? Because the plotting doesn't work otherwise - but the only in-story reason is a bunch of hand-waving that amounts to, 'because that's how Lorien powers work.' The book also faces a common YA fiction problem of a scale mismatch between the love story and the main plot; if its solution isn't quite 'love conquers all', it's not far off. On the whole, the book isn't horrible, but I'm puzzled that anyone bothered to make a movie of it.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I liked the story enough to quickly read to the end.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I used to wait for the books to be released and very eagerly begin reading them. This was the first book I did not rush to, and I'm not sure if it's because I was too busy or too disinterested. At the time, busy seemed to be the answer (I started graduate school the same week the book was released), now I'm not so sure.

    I can say for certain that I am not a fan of the audiobooks and I will be returning to my trusty friend the hardcover version. I couldn't get a good picture of the action from this book and I am not sure if it's because of how it was told- I definitely have a different "voice" in my head than the audiobook- or if it was because of the writing. Either way, thus far this has been my least favorite book of the series.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    What a fun read - great adventure story with high appeal for those who like their story to move along quickly.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I don't know about a review but here I go, I love the movie and it wasn't until a friend of mine told me that this was a book series that I decided to read it. I do not know why I am surprised that the book is way better, I books usually are . I can't believe they left so much out of the book in the movie, the whole back story about their planet and the time he spends in Paradise, Ohio getting to know Sarah and Sam plus his bond with Henri, I just loved it and I loved the fight scene it gave it so much more meaning and perspective. Can't wait to finish the rest of the series.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Very readable but definitely not spectacular.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Teen fiction; action-adventure. I wanted to like this book, but even though Neil Kaplan did a decent job with creating the various character voices, I found the writing tedious. The explanation of the Loriens' battle and escape from the Mogadorians took forever, and things (such as the reason the Loriens didn't hide in big cities) were explained more than once.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Bought this by accident. Would not buy again. Maybe if I was 15...
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    For the longest time I passed on this when I saw it in my recommendations but I'm glad I gave it a chance. I normally like Fantasy books, not so much Sci-fi, and I found this to be an easy read and it was very easy to continue on to figure out what was gonna happen next.

    This book has action and adventure and enough mystery to be interesting.
    Overall a very good book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Loved this. The movie totally twists it the story.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I enjoyed this book. It was a fun fast read with lots of action (especially at the end).
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A great start to the series, I like how well it sets everything up and introduces characters without being too overwhelming.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    READ IN DUTCH

    I guess when all you have to do is be quite and don't get noticed by the aliens hunting you down the alias John Smith is definitely going to work, because there is no way that is going to look suspicious at all!

    "John" is one of a set of nine aliens, driven from their home planet into hiding on Earth. They have one rather strong form of protection. They have been assigned a number and can only be killed in that particular order. Must have been a real let down to be number one...

    The story doesn't always makes a lot of sense, but is a fast read and as such quite enjoyable.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book kept me on my toes. Some of the things I expected to happened seem to be the complete opposite of what happened. I think I might go watch the movie.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I wanted to like this book, but I just didn't find the plotting to be compelling. I don't try very hard, yet even I could predict what was going to happen next.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Action-packed, very much YA, quite enjoyable. The whole ‘can only be killed in order’ didn’t make sense and wasn’t satisfactorially explained. I was given books 2 and 3 so borrowed this one from the library.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Solid sci-fi. Actually, this isn't even one of my preferred genres, but I was still thoroughly engaged. I'm kinda really liking the whole plot that's set up here, and it's going in an interesting direction. Now, granted, there are some holes, but I felt as though I needed to go out of my way to even notice them with how engaged I was in the narrative.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I really enjoyed this book, although I felt that some of the writing felt a little juvenile. I attribute that, partially, to it being from the point of view of a 15 year old boy, which I am not accustomed to. It had a wonderful plot that left me searching to find if there would be a second book, and there was plenty of back story which I love. There were a few grammatical errors that I saw, but that doesn't bother me too much so I was still able to enjoy the book despite that.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I Am Number Four features an intense storyline that is hard to put down, that makes you like the characters and makes you wan to see what happens to them next. Although the fight sequences make it a little hard to read, by way of losing the voice of the author and reading more of history than action.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I'm still debating whether I like he movie or the book more. I found the first 150-200 pages of the book utterly boring, however I could not put it down no matter how hard I tried for the last 100 pages. The suspenseful points in there book were ruined by foreshadowing and common sense, even without the background of the movie you had a window into what was going to happen next in what would have otherwise been suspenseful points of the book.

    If you have already seen the movie and left wanting more, definitely read the book and stay tuned for the next book (The Power of Six). I feel that Pittacus Lore is a good story teller and the next book will no doubt be good especially since you won't have the boring introduction into the characters unique lives.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I really tried but I did not enjoy this book... I kept waiting for it to get good but it never did.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    John and Henry have been living on the run since they arrived on Earth 10 years ago. Constantly watching for signs and leaving at a moments notice. Of the 9 children that were on the flight from Lorien, John is number 4.They caught Number One in Malaysia.Number Two in England.And Number Three in KenyaThe Modagorians must kill each child in their proper order and John is next. I thought this was great read and I gobbled it up and ran out to buy the second in the series. I found myself loving John and the people he ended up surrounding himself with. There was a scene when he stands up to a bully and kicks ass and I was rooting for him! 4* and recommended!