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

Rick Yancey

Start date: August 1, 2021

Finish date: August 31, 2021

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Apr 08, 2016 Heather rated it it was amazing

Actual Rating: 4.5 stars

I only had one major issue with this book, that was being able to keep up with the different narrators of the sections as they changed. The characters were so well written and developed I felt as if I was one of them myself. Every twist and turn I was holding my breath trying to figure out what was going to happen next. I absolutely fell in love with Cassie and Sammy's characters and I couldn't have completed this journey without them both! Thank heavens I gave this book ...more

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Apr 21, 2016 Connie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, read-in-2016, owned

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Title: The 5th Wave
Series: The 5th Wave #1
Author: Rick Yancey
Overall Rating: 5 stars

I won't lie, I didn't expect very much from this book. I'm always very weary of hyped books as I tend to be more disappointed than I am impressed by them, but this book was shockingly brilliant. Aliens aren't something that I've ever explored in YA, and this book approached the genre with something really interesting and unique.

The main character in this bo ...more

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Sep 29, 2015 Elizabeth Emily Browne rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: trick-or-treat-oct-2015

This was so so good. I mean really.. Wow.

... And that's what you do when the curtain is falling - you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

I loved this book and I will definitely be reading the others. I don't know what I was expecting from this book because of the very mixed reviews I had been seeing. However this was so much better than the hype. I'm a very emotional reader. I always have been and I always will be. Therefore there are certain things that pull at my heartstrings. No ...more

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Mar 28, 2017 T.J. Burns marked it as to-read

Shelves: young-adult-teen, cali, fantasy-sci-fi, kindle-ebook

BUDDY READ: Dystopian/Sci-Fi > The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave #1) by Rick Yancey - Restarting April 16th 2017
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Dec 25, 2015 Sean Franco-Norris rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorite, favorite-series, paperback-own, books-to-screen

That was amazing. I didn't even see the end until it ended. That is how attached I am to the book. The author balanced out the characters' POV really well. It was so easy to identify who's character's POV because the personality shows.

In someway the plots were predictable because I'd already figured out who were humans and who weren't. But there were a couple plots I didn't see it coming. I can't exactly tell you which plot I didn't see it coming because that'd spoil the book, which is exactly ...more

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