The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore
The group has a good thing going in Nine's pimped out penthouse. They haven't defeated the bad guy, but that's okay, they found Sarah. Life is good. Now they can gear up and go find Five to become the merriest bunch of alien soldiers.
The awkward teenage love trio of Four, Six, and Sarah go for a road trip to retrieve Five. They have all these super weird conversations about their love life. There is a great fight scene where we get to experience some new Legacies, though. Sam and his sniper father, Malcolm, find the Loriens because Five lit a beacon the moon could find him, but not the Mogadorians--not suspicious in the least.
When Five joins the group, his attitude is bad. Down right antagonistic, but he tries to blow it off as a side effect of his isolated island hopping background. He holes up in his room not getting to know anyone, he flies off under the cover of darkness, he starts fights but is too "weak" to finish them. I did not buy a second of it. He is clearly a mole. (See above encounter.)
When we find out that indeed someone is siphoning top secret information on how all of their Legacies work and what's inside each of their chests, we are instantly presented with the most cliche suspect. Malcolm Goode. Clearly the man held prisoner for a decade and experimented on is a sleeper agent, accused of such by his own son in the most awkward couple of cliche paragraphs.
While Four and Ten are in a telepathic coma, and Five through Nine are in Florida, the Mogadorians strike the penthouse. (I'm sad to see the super base go, it was a fantastic hideout.) They manage to capture Ten, but the Loriens get Adam, the Mogadorian with a Legacy.
Again, the story premise was good, the characters are amazingly fleshed out, it was just the execution of the storytelling that killed the rating. Two stars for the abundant cliches. Please get better "Lorien Legacies" because I have vowed to finish all started series before I can read anything new.
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