The Garde Book

I chose to read “I am number four - The lost files”. It’s a series of books which follows nine aliens who left their home planet Lorien due to an attack by the evil Mogadorians, the aliens are now living in different places on earth, but the Mogadorians have come to earth in an attempt to find the remaining members of “The Garde” (“The Garde” is what they call the nine aliens ) and kill them. Before it’s too late they have to find eachother and escape the Mogadorians. The book I read follows one of the aliens, his name is Nine.

Nine is the main character of the book and he lives with Sandor. Sandor is sort of a “mentor” to Nine and his job is to guide and train him, an example of this : ‘ “Keep your head in the the game!” Sandor shouts at me after a …show more content…
Nine and Sandor gets sent to the Mogadorians prison where they eventually kill Sandor, Nine is left alone until one day when another member of “The Garde” shows up and helps Nine to escape (solution).

We get to know that the story is set in spring time in Chicago because one of the first sentences are “Spring in Chicago is my favorite season, the winters are cold and windy but springs perfect” (p 1). Because of the story being set on earth it feels more realistic, the author also focuses more on what Nine is thinking and how he’s trying to assimiliate into society rather than him being an alien.
One of the supernatural elements are that members of “The Garde” all obtain different “legacies”, basically superpowers, for example invicibility, telekinesis (the power to mentally manipulate objects). An example of him using his legacies : “I feel like spiderman, using my newest legacy to stand outside of an Chicago skyscraper, fifty stories up. “ (p