The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

     I kept seeing this title, everywhere!  The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey- onInstagram, Barnes and Noble, and a few others- I had to find out about it, but I wasn't encouraged to buy it until a friend I met on Goodreads.com.  Thanks Vanessa!  So I went ahead and picked it up, along with the follow-up, The Infinite Sea.  You can't have a story and not find out how it ends, yeah?  Okay, so let's get this review on the road!      You get a few POV's in this book: Cassie and Zombie, Evan... I'm sure the movie will do the same, but you get to live through them, all in first person.  The world has fallen- with little hope for a comeback.  The Others have made their presence known and begin to attack in "waves" with the third and fourth a powerful as The Stonewall Attack in chess - if you know chess.

     So the story is about survival, education and fighting back.  It's about wiping out the human race, finding a brother and some serious mind play.  There's a little love  in there but it's weak so it doesn't distract from the tale.   I can't say too much more because I don't do SPOILERS!  What I can say is that this story started out über-interesting!  I was hooked, even though Cassie's intro was a bit dull.  When she begins to finally start sharing things the way my overactive mind requires, I was hooked.  It was awesome to hear how The Others rode in and how the world reacted to them, but then the story got slow.  Very slow.

    Like a good girl, I pressed on.  Somewhere around chapter 60 or so, it was back on and I got slightly excited again!  The ending was explosive (literally) so I started thinking, the movie should be good.  Hopefully it will not be like the book.  (Blasphemy?)  It'll skip all the crappy parts and come out amazing, I hope.  The thing is, it wasn't great, but it wasn't all that grand either.  I know it's just me; I expected attacks War of the Worlds  and more.  So much more, but I can't say much else without telling something I shouldn't.

     If you're like me and have to read a book before the movie hits, read this!  You'll enjoy it, sans the parts that were  slow, but you will like it.  Love it?  I don't know... maybe, but you'll enjoy it more.
Off to the next book!