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Sep 23, 2015 jencurlygurl rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Fun semi-hidden jokes in The 5th wave?!

Despite a few minor things (see below) I quite loved this book. It pulls you in and doesn't let go until you've turned the last page... and even then you don't feel done with it.

First of all I want to point out something that I haven't seen people write or talk much about. The book has some nice sort of "inside" jokes (but they're of course not that difficult to spot or get or anything) that I quite liked. For example, this quote:

"I'm afraid we may expect s Fun semi-hidden jokes in The 5th wave?!

Despite a few minor things (see below) I quite loved this book. It pulls you in and doesn't let go until you've turned the last page... and even then you don't feel done with it.

First of all I want to point out something that I haven't seen people write or talk much about. The book has some nice sort of "inside" jokes (but they're of course not that difficult to spot or get or anything) that I quite liked. For example, this quote:

"I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans".
This is ACTUALLY from Stephen Hawking:
"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans,"

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"At which point her arch nemesis, the sole atheist in Camp Ashpit's foxhole, a college professor named Dawkins, shouted out, 'Particularly those of extraterrestrial origin!' "
The sole atheist named Dawkins? I laughed out loud when I read that.

Second, I have a little bit of an issue with the language in this book. 95% of the time I don't think about it and then all of a sudden some really juvenile tweeny language has been thrown in there sort of along the lines of "And I was like...". That really annoyed me and it didn't feel genuine. It seemed to me like the author all of a sudden remembered "oh yeah, teenagers are gonna love this, I should use some teen expressions".

Thirdly, throughout the book you hardly read anything about the characters' feelings, if you don't count fear, anger, or going Dorothy, I don't think there are hardly any emotions left. You would think that characters going through something as traumatising as losing everyone they've ever loved, there would be some more emotions? The way what happens is described it appears a bit cold or clinical to me. I understand if the intent is to illustrate that what happened has made the survivors tough, but I don't find that very believable.

Fourthly, I've seen in some reviews that people had some issues with the switching of narrators and that it's not spelled out whose perspective you're following. I had no issues with that. I think it became evident who you're following on the first page after the switch in every single case and I found it quite intriguing to start each part (which is then divided into chapters) excited to see who you would follow next.

I tend to give 5 stars to books I would consider re-reading. This is one of them. It's wildly entertaining, I read the whole thing the past weekend since I couldn't get myself to do anything else once I had started. Highly recommend it! ...more

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