The New York Times bestseller comes to the big screen!
A USA Today bestseller
Winner of the 2014 Red House Children’s Book Award
2014 Children’s Choice Book Awards Finalist for Teen Book of the Year
A YALSA 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults
A YALSA 2014 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers
A Booklist 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults
A VOYA 2013 Perfect Ten
An Amazon Best Book of the Year
“Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances.”—Entertainment Weekly
The Passage meets Ender’s Game in an epic New York Times bestselling series debut from award-winning author Rick Yancey.
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only theunlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.
Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother–or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.
“Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”—Justin Cronin,The New York Times Book Review
“A modern sci-fi masterpiece . . . should do for aliens what Twilightdid for vampires.”—USAToday.com
Books in the series:
The 5th Wave (The First Book of The 5th Wave)
The Infinite Sea (The Second Book of The 5th Wave)
Title still to come! (The Third Book of the The 5th Wave)
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Sexual Content - 2/5
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Violence - 3/5
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Language - 2/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - /5
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Summary
Wow. So I hardly ever give books five stars, but The 5th Wave deserved them all. This was one of the best books I have read in a long, long time... and I read a lot of books. I picked up The 5th Wave expecting it to be pretty awesome, considering its recent crowning as the number one book at the top of the YA throne. It was everywhere I looked- on the walls of Barnes & Noble, at the top of the Amazon summer reading list... And yet, with all that build-up, it still blew my Expectation Meter. I can't decide what I liked more- the plot or the characters. Probably the characters. The main protagonist, Cassie, was a total badass. (At first. More on that later.) But no one told me that the book is told through several different narrators- some of whom I can't reveal. It kind of confused me at first, because there's no heading to tell you who's talking, but part of the fun is figuring it out. Remember how I said the characters were badass? Same with the plot. It kind of swung back and forth between explosions, romance, snipers, the plague, and more explosions. The great thing is, even when the romance started to get kind of stupid, the suicide sniper missions and military recon missions would rear their head, and by the time you got back to romance you were like, whew, I needed a break anyways. Example: there was a romantic scene I thought was totally corny and eye-rolling, but it fades to black and the next chapter? Soldiers blowing up aliens with M16s. Very cool. I'm pretty ADD, though, so rapid changes in pace are my favorite. I think I kind of rambled a little, but I just have a lot of feelings when it comes to The 5th Wave. It's incredible. It's painful. It's God's gift to si-fi obsessed teenage girls everywhere. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys a lot of action mixed with a story about realistic characters who you come to genuinely care for,
Violence-This book was SO VIOLENT. People were killed in tsunamis, came down with plagues that were rather graphically described, had their heads blown off, got possessed by aliens, were shot, punched, kicked, and blown up.
Language-Some. I always forget, but I feel like the f-bomb was dropped once. Defiantly some swearing
Sexual-One scene of making out, nothing serious.