Miguel A’s Reviews > The 5th Wave > Status Update

The story ends with a small group of them surviving and camping a couple miles outside the base just relieved its all over. We're left on a cling hanger as to what happens to them after the whole explosion because we must remember the others still remain in the huge spaceship!

Cassie and Ben have met up and teamed up to saved Cassie's little brother. They are about to escape from the military camp with a group of others as the siren goes off when they suddenly see Evan and he saves them by blowing up the military camp, sacrificing himself to save them

Evan admits to Cassie that he's an Other and only half human but was recruited by the others to help eliminate humans. Evan admits he ended up falling in love with her and now wants to help her but Cassie now wants nothing to do with him.

Ben and his group have figured out that the tubes are not only but fake instruments to make them think that people who don't have them are Others but they're humans just like them. The military are a part of the Others and are training them so they can kill off the rest of humans as if they were aliens.

At this point we've switched protagonists and now it's Ben, Cassie's crush from High School, and he's been recruited by the military to fight against the others. At the military camp they've injected a grayish tube into his neck which they say will help him distinguish who's human and who's not.

We see the first time an Other disguise themselves as a human. A so called military Coronel murders Cassie’s dad when he claimed he could help them and this is when Cassie escapes. In addition to that Crisco is also murdered by the fake humans.

Finally after weeks at the camp they have noticed more activity both of the Others and the army. What’s gets them excited and confused is when one day during the night a helicopter lands and hypes everyone up only to leave, rescuing nobody. This left everyone confused until the next day a school bus arrives to bring all the children including Sammy to a safer location, claiming to be what’s left of the army.

We now know what some of the waves consisted of including a world wide EMP, massive earthquake, and a horrible contagious disease. We also come to find out that the disease is what took Casey’s Mother’s life.

Today Cassie decides to move from her position and start heading some place else. While she's moving she finds a group of dead bodies when she goes to touch them they're still warm. While gets up from crouching she's shot in the leg by an unknown thing or person, she didn't see where it came from.

We now understand that the Others do not want to help or enslave humans but rather just kill them all. We also got information that before the Others came to earth people were either runners (ran off for the hills) or Nestor’s (stayed in place and sheltered up)