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The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)

Rick Yancey

Start date: December 19, 2017

Finish date: January 6, 2017

Discussion: 17/ Child Narrator

Discussion leader: Erin

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Jul 03, 2019 Catherine Petrini rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya-juvenile, fantasy-sf, novel, dystopian

An apocalyptic novel about the End of the World As We Know It. In this case, it's an alien invasion of Earth. The book focuses mostly on several teenagers and their experiences through the initial stages of the attack and its aftermath. This book leaves many questions unanswered, leaving me feeling as if the aliens' strategy might not really make any sense, and was designed only to allow for a cast of strong teenage characters with little human adult supervision. On the other hand, I haven't rea ...more

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Apr 09, 2017 Patricia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Books usually better than the movie...

And this one is no exception, I do have to say that they did really keep the movie very close to the book.

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Jul 31, 2014 Jai Rahim rated it really liked it

Shelves: dystopian

I'm not particularly into sci-fi however, I did enjoy this book. Easy reading, suspenseful, with a fierce young cast of characters, and plenty of scrapes for them to get themselves out of. ...more

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