The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

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What are your thoughts? What did you like? What did you not like? Talk about anything you want to regarding the book:


After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

[David]

Hmm tough one....I wanted to like it. I think the hype was the issue for me, it raised my expectations too much and then it didn't live up to it. I hated (view spoiler)[ the "romance" with Evan. It was so prescribe and reminiscent of The Host by Stephanie Meyer. It just annoyed me and destroyed the story. Also, the whole "host" thing was just really unoriginal for me too. But I did like Zombie and the story with the whole military training and everything. For that I gave it 3 stars. (hide spoiler)]

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I did enjoy this book. I enjoyed the journey piece with the flash backs. I felt it would have been better if there was more war action in both the past and present. It kept building it up like so and all we get is a few gun shots and a small action ending. I would have loved more of an Evan story as I felt that could have given more to the story. Just so many unanswered questions which is why I gave it a 3.