Review: The 5th Wave (Spoiler Free)

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Summary:

Book by Rick Yancey

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.

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Review:

5/5 Stars

I read this book because I saw the movie trailer and thought it looked interesting.  This book went beyond anything I could ever imagine.  Because it was so good, I did not go see the movie, afraid that anything a director could put on screen would not be as good as what I had read.

This book looks like your average YA book.  Post Apocalypse. Girl meets boy.  Family problems. Fantasy.  But it was nothing like any other YA book I have ever read.

 This book asks questions, makes the reader really think about things.  It has deep meaning and problems that leaving you wondering what kind of person you actually are.  It was almost like poetry where everything was beautifully and deeply described (except easier to understand).

While the main idea is that aliens have taken over the world and humans are just trying to survive, there is so much more to it than that.  The idea of survival is just one thing that is brought up.  Most of the book is told from Cassie's thoughts.  She is just a teenage girl trying to understand why these aliens would even attack her home world in the way they did, while searching for her brother, retelling the past, and surviving.  This book changed perspective throughout, and while normally I would hate that, this one did it so well that I never minded.  The day I ended this book I went and bought the next one.  

I had to take a few weeks off of reading just to digest the ideas in this book, spend some time really thinking about what it all meant.  If you like to think more than just about trivial things, this book is perfect for you.  The writing was wonderful.  It was quick paced.  I enjoyed every minute of it.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is mature enough to read it.

Happy Reading

Amanda Lyn