Don't miss the major film of The 5th Wave by Sony Pictures starring Chloe Grace Moretz (If I Stay). "Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances." (Entertainment Weekly). The 5th Wave is the award-winning and bestselling first book in an epic series from award-winning Rick Yancey that' s perfect for fans of The Hunger Games.
The 1st Wave: Took out half a million people. The 2nd Wave: Put that number to shame. The 3rd Wave: Lasted a little longer. Twelve weeks...Four billion dead. In The 4th Wave, You can't trust that people are still people. And The 5th Wave? No one knows. But it's coming. On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs. Runs from the beings that only look human, who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be her only hope. Now Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up. "A modern sci-fi masterpiece...Should do for aliens what Twilight did for vampires." (USA Today). "Wildly entertaining..." (Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review). "The pace is relentless." (Heat). "Chilling."
Mifanwy is a Boffins Books YA Club member. Mifanwy blogs at Miffology.
I’m going to start off this review with an honest confession: I watched the 5th Wave movie before I read the book. I know, I know, don’t give me that look, it was a little further down on my TBR list than I’d hoped, and by the time it was in my hands, I already knew the whole story. Whoops. But, for the purpose of the review, I’m going to write it as though I never watched the film.
Since the huge hype for ‘The Hunger Games,’ there is currently nothing more popular in YA literature than a dystopian, end-of-the-world, kids against adults book. And that’s exactly what Rick Yancey’s ‘The 5th Wave’ is. Being a fan of stories about how the world is in chaos, I was looking forward to reading the 5th Wave and discovering yet another way that the world could end, and this time, it was because of an alien invasion. Now, before reading this book, I had this stock-standard alien picture of an alien in my head. You know the type: green, bug-eyed men we all know so well, hanging out in UFO’s, using laser beams to defeat humanity and take over the world. This book is nothing like I imagined it would be, and for that I’m glad.
16 year old Cassie Sullivan believes she may be the last human left on earth. She has survived the first 4 waves of destruction sent by the aliens, or, as she calls them, the Others. She now lives alone in the woods, fighting for survival and fighting to keep her promise to return to her little brother, who was taken away to a military base. However, on her journey to the military base, she is shot in the leg by an Other, and becomes sick. She is saved by a young farm boy, Evan, and is brought to his home for recovery. However, Evan may not be all he seems to be.
As much as I enjoyed the twisty, turny plot twists of this book, they were a little obvious at times, and perhaps not as shocking as they could have been. One thing I would change about this book was the mostly ambivalent romantic subplot between Evan and Cassie. The two characters had next to no chemistry, and all it did was slow the story down. From what I could see, all Cassie cared about was Evan’s big hands and good cuticles, and all Evan cared about was Cassie’s looks and safety. Don’t get me wrong here, the plot of this book was great, but I could’ve done with less staring into Evan’s ‘chocolaty brown’ eyes, and a little more of kicking alien butt.
Having said that, the last 150 pages of the book really turned around my overall opinion of this story, as we finally had some constant, intense action scenes that were well written and were just what the story needed. The whole situation was dropped in a pressure cooker and turned up to max, with explosions, injuries, and lots of gun usage. Finally, the characters were truly fighting back, and I was able to give this a 3/5 rating. For those of you who are interested, the book is much better than the film, and I’d recommend that if you are going to see the film, read the book first.
Tilly Booth is a member of the Boffins Books YA club, and also blogs about books at tilly-and-her-books.tumblr.com.
I read the first line of this book and immediately I was hooked.
Aliens? A butt-kicking female lead? A great storyline? Characters with wonderful backstories? Heartbreaking moments? Wonderful writing? This book has it all.
Cassie Sullivan has survived it all. Wave after wave of alien attacks and she still stands strong. Even when her younger brother is taken. She endures and continues on an adventure that kept me on the edge of my seat and turning the page.
Rick Yancey proves at the beginning of this book that no one is truly safe. With the heartbreaking reality that in a dangerous world, bad things happen. And bad things happened to Cassie and her family.
A boy that Cassie certainly shouldn't have fallen in love with manages to capture her attention. The romance in this book is sure to create tension for the rest of the series and I can't wait to read it!
I loved this book from the first page until the last.
I give The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey 5 out of 5 stars!
