The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1) in Hype or Like Friday

Dec 25, 2015 Sofii♡ (A Book. A Thought.) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance, fantasy, young-adult, read-in-2016, science-fiction

OMG this book! ...5th wave ... I just do not see that coming INCREDIBLE !

I enjoyed it so much I do not know where to start, this way of writing ... I'm in love with his writing, many points of view where everyone keeps you waiting for what's coming ...

Totally adore history, this world that Rick created is quite exciting with a little action, love, friendship, family all in one! . Where no one should trust anyone, where anyone can be the enemy may surprise you at any time.

The characters ... I hav ...more

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Dec 05, 2015 Poulami rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller-adventure-action, young-adult, romance, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic

Originally posted on Daydreaming Books along with movie review.

I wanted to read The 5th Wave for a long time but I couldn't because I was kinda busy buying other books. Then I saw that the movie was coming out and it was the perfect opportunity for me to read the book before going to see the movie. So, I finally picked it up in December and I'm so glad I did because I absolutely loved the book.

Cassie had been living a pretty normal life just like any other high school student until the mothershi ...more

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Jun 03, 2013 Elisa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I don't even know where to begin with this book! It was perfect, I absolutely loved it. Every line of it.

I'm a sucker for books about a post apocalyptic world, especially if they include aliens or zombies, so when I first read the description for this book I had to read it.

“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.” - Stephen Hawking

This quote got it all started for m ...more

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Apr 19, 2015 Dani ❤️ Perspective of a Writer rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction-young-adult, series-book-1, reviewed, g-r-aliens, stars-3, imo-worthy-love-interest, imo-monsters-unique, g-t-future, genre-sci-fi, genre-romance-deliberately

Cassie and Zombie are two survivors of an alien invasion that came in 4 waves. Wave 1 was an electromagnetic pulse to knock out the power. Wave 2 was to wipe out coastal cities and drop population numbers so that Wave 3 a virus could decimate them. If that is not enough the surviving humans know that any human they come across could be a silencer (Wave 4), an alien that looks and acts like a survivor but whose objective is to wipe out their contemporaries. This synopsis sounds like it reveals A Cassie and Zombie are two survivors of an alien invasion that came in 4 waves. Wave 1 was an electromagnetic pulse to knock out the power. Wave 2 was to wipe out coastal cities and drop population numbers so that Wave 3 a virus could decimate them. If that is not enough the surviving humans know that any human they come across could be a silencer (Wave 4), an alien that looks and acts like a survivor but whose objective is to wipe out their contemporaries. This synopsis sounds like it reveals A LOT, right? No. We are given this same information as matter of factly as I just listed it!

Told in dual POVs (we get guest POVs irregularly too - Silencer and Sam) we follow Cassie and Zombie as they try to deal with being survivors in the aftermath of destruction. Unlike my fellow reviewers I did not take to Cassie. She felt like a dime a dozen "Badass Mary Sue" who was uncertain just what that meant except that it definitely meant being suspicious of people while not exactly untrusting. We've seen this character countless times, they somehow empower women while seeming to me to be all about their strut capability and their cynical mouth. I was wondering what in the world anyone found compelling about this book. Then we got to the other POVs.

My favorite was the Silencer POV, given briefly so that we understand what is going on with Cassie's POV - I really felt this character had potential to be dynamite! In a dual POV story we want contrast, so many people go with sex: male and female, but why not human and alien?! Wow! That would have made this book epic! So once I could see this potential I wanted to see where the author really took it. It wasn't bad. Zombie was a hell of a lot more interesting, his story made more sense than Cassie's did (since she is a contemporary of Zombie's they should have taken her on the bus, not her little brother who is too young) and he had a bit more emotional heft to his backstory. He meets a really badass girl whose POV I'd have much preferred over Zombie's. In fact, lets make the less interesting Zombie and Cassie the friends with benefits and make Evan and Ringer the POV characters.

Evan felt very creepy as a love interest because the "love" was so instalove and we didn't get enough of his POV to understand it! Start with him! Make us care about so-so Cassie, the regular bassass Mary Sue because Evan the bonded alien human cares! (Writing 101) He even has a ready made character arc in Sam. Why does Cassie care so much for Sam? Why am I starting to care for Sam because Cassie cares? ETC. Ringer was hands down many readers favorite character, because, I like to think, she truly acted like a badass suspicious girl! Zombie's backstory was interesting in a ho-hum sort of way but would have been a lot better if we learned it through this badass suspicious girl he slowly wins over and must reveal he's really a coward to. I would have liked to know how she realized the truth about the aliens (especially as the twist wasn't really that well done to begin with!) and seen all the training from her "superior skills" POV.

The plot wasn't original. Again we are seeing a popular book because of the twist reveal at the end (that I saw and hopefully, most readers saw, a MILE away!) and an amalgamation of the plots of many other stories that just aren't as well known to most of the reading public. The poor storytelling really was disappointing (so much better choices could have been made) but it was the boring writing that really was sour (its so peevish when a reader likes a book and waxes on about the excellent writing when they really just liked the twists. Twists ARE NOT writing!)

BOTTOM LINE: Great Amalgamation of Alien Invasion Stories. ...more

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