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The 5th Wave
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Jessica
The 5th Wave has an interesting concept. An alien force has come to earth, and they are killing off humans in 5 waves. I know several people who love this book, but unfortunately I'm not one of them.

I had two main issues. Issue #1? The love interest. He was so blandly perfect that I was, quite frankly, bored. I also get the sense that a love triangle is being set up for book #2, which is not good. (view spoiler)
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Tfalcone
Apr 24, 2016 rated it really liked it
Good, now I am ready for the movie.
Rebekah
This was a surprisingly good and hard-to-figure out YA dystopian novel!
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