The Rise of Nine Review

I can't even bring myself to put an exclamation mark after the title of this post because, let's face it, this book sucked and I'm not excited to review it. If you, dear reader, suffer from bad cases of book annoyance and irritation (BAI-it's where the book really irritates you or annoys you so much your vision goes red) then I DO NOT suggest this book. Why would I do that to you? So without further ado, I give to you, The Rise of Nine Review:

THE RISE OF NINE by PITTACUS LORE

Movie Rating: PG-13 for language, violence, and gory images
Book Rating: @
Swearing: LOTS of big swear words. (Please don't make me write them all down)
Inappropriate Scenes: None
# of Pages: 416 (hardcover)
Genre: YA sci-fi
Publisher: Harper Collins

Back Blurb:
Until the day I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive.

Together, we are much more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others. . . .

I went to Spain to find Seven, and I found even more, including a tenth member of the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive. Ella is younger than the rest of us, but just as brave. Now we're looking for the others—including John.

But so are they.

They caught Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.
They caught me in New York—but I escaped.
I am Number Six.
They want to finish what they started.

But they'll have to fight us first.

My Review: 

Okay, um, first off let me get a cup of coffee to wake myself up because I fell asleep reading this book and I'm (yawn) really tired. The hype about The Rise of Nine releasing was HUGE. And I'll admit it, I was part of it. I couldn't wait to pick this book because I wanted to know the end. Because for some reason I thought (ha) that this was going to be the end. It's not. Instead, Pittacus decides to prolong your agony by writing another book to this going-down hill series. And only God knows how many more he's going to make us suffer through before he puts us out of our misery. There was no plot. I repeat. No Plot at all! It was just a bunch of thrown together fight scenes that showed off the group's 'awesome' powers. *SPOILER ALERT* And guess what, predictably, Sarah's back in the picture. Oh joy. Yippee. (sarcastic) Pittacus Lore has two big, bad habits that I've discovered:

1: He's soooo predictable. You know what going to happen.

2: He'll throw a twist into the story and then forgets all about it in the next book. Doesn't even mention it.

So, in short, I don't recommend this book to anyone who severely suffers from BAI. Sad, really, but there it is.

Cover Convo-The Rise of Nine

Release Date: August 21, 2012

Whew! August is the exciting month! FOUR of the books I really really really want to read come out within days of each other! :) Today I'm talking about The Rise of Nine's cover (I Am Number Four Book #3) What at interesting title. Very attention grabbing. Very sinister sounding.... The Rise of Nine. Just let it roll of your tongue. (okay now I'm just sounding gross. Sorry) I'm not quite sure what the cover is supposed to be of. I think it's a Lorien number (guessing Number 9) but I'm not sure what number because for some strange reason I don't speak Lorien..... I hope all my answers are answered in this one because Pittacus Lore left a lot of unanswered questions in The Power of Six (have absolutely no idea what that cover is supposed to be....) and I hope he answers them all in The Rise of Nine. (Not to mention he stopped the book in the worst place possible!) I'm excited for the book but also a little wary. In the first two books Lore put in a lot of big embarrassing swear words. (Book 2 had fewer than Book 1, but still) I hope he won't do that with The Rise of Nine. And for some reason, as of right now, Alien Number 9 is my favorite. I'm not sure why. Maybe because he sound so awesome. :P So yes I'm excited for this book but be strongly cautioned: If you go to read I am Number Four be prepared for major swearing! But if you really must know, I am Number Four isn't the book it's chalked up to be. It was good. But not like super super super good. Ya know? It was no Hunger Games. Or Divergent. Or Maze Runner.