The 5th Wave
by Rick Yancey
Yancey, R. (2013). The
5th wave. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
It begins with an alien ship hovering above the planet. For ten days the people of Earth watch and
wait to see what these visitors will do.
Little do they know the aliens are about to unleash waves of attack
unlike anything they could have imagined.
First there’s an electromagnetic pulse that wipes out all of Earth’s
electricity. Then come the tsunamis,
wiping out billions of people. The 3rd
wave is the pestilence, or Red Death, infecting a majority of the humans that
are left. Then there’s the 4th
wave, where alien consciousness awakens in pre implanted human minds and these
sleepers, AKA “Silencers,” are released to gun down remaining survivors. Now the 5th wave is upon them and
we get to experience the happenings through the eyes of several
characters. 16 year-old Cassie has
already lost her mother to the plague and watched her father murdered by “the
others.” Now her only reason for staying
alive is the promise she made to her little brother that she would come for
him. Ben, AKA “Zombie,” has lost his
entire family and has found himself in some type of supposed safe haven, which
is actually more of a military training/death camp. Sammy, AKA “Nugget,” is Cassie’s little brother
who was loaded onto a school bus under the premise of being taken to safety, and
hauled off into the same camp as Ben.
Then there’s Evan Walker, who rescues Cassie and nurses her back to
health, but evidently has some serious secrets he’s hiding. The first in the series, this NYT Bestselling book definitely ends
on a cliffhanger leaving the reader wanting more. Young adult lovers of science fiction and apocalyptic
novels will enjoy this read.
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