Caroline's Reviews > The Rise of Nine

I didn't mind the changing of POVs, my only wish is that the author clearly labeled whose POVs instead of just only changing the font. I just found it confusing and took me a while to realize whose POV it was every time.

Eventually, it all came together but some POVs were more interesting than others.

Frankly, Number Four/John is annoying the crap outta me, why? Because of his poor decision-making and actions that come across as selfish and impulsive whose single-track mind to rescue his human girlfriend who supposedly betrayed him to the humans and the Mogs is hell-bent on rescuing her?! A good way to get yourself killed and make it easier for the Mogs to destroy the rest of your species, the Lorien, and eventually dominate the human race all over a tween romance that's just puppy love?!

I much prefer Six, Ella and Marina are interesting though I would like to see more character development with their characters, just feel like something was missing.

What's unbelievably frustrating is that a lot of this book is just filler, to get these characters to all meet up, and the two groups are separated the majority of the book, on road trips and teleporting here and there until they all reunite with the final showdown with Setrákus Ra, leader of the Mogadorians, whose also been torturing Sam and Sarah for details about the group, with only Sarah and Six being rescued and Sam is still in enemy's hands, other than that NOTHING NEW is added to the story.

Overall, I feel like the author should've explored more in developing the characters' distinctive personalities more, cuz having too many POVs that are not written well is just a hot mess. As I wanna know more about Number 6, Number 7, and Number 10, the rest I don't care about and actually want the bad guys to win because I don't find any other character sympathetic or endearing to cheer on, even the main villain is a yawn-fest, where's did the story and its characters' purpose go? cuz it definitely feels like it vanished into the vortez!!