but that’s the topic of the next rant), part bizarre military training sequence (hence the unfounded comparisons to Ender’s Game. Why? Because there’s just nothing here but a collection of alien invasion tropes leading to an actual plot that’s all over the place, part cringe worthy young adult ‘romance’ (which I never would have expected outside of the usual suspects.
THE 5TH WAVE SERIES
The 5th Wave shouldn’t even qualify as science fiction unless it’s being mentioned in the same breath as Jennifer Armentrout’s Lux series (even Stephenie Meyer’s The Host is too good for this comparison). Rant Number 1: The Alien Invasion is Beyond Disappointing But now that I’ve finished, I’m just so pissed with the whole thing I have nothing nice to say and really just want to punch something, and in fact, I dislike The 5th Wave so much I’ve somehow written not one but three angry rants - yeah, be warned, this is going to be brutal(ly honest). Everything about The 5th Wave - an award winning male young adult author, a high octane alien invasion plot, the comparisons to Ender’s Game and The Passage - made it seem like it’d exactly my kind of book. But now that I’ve finished, I’m just so pissed with the whole thing I have nothing nice to say and really just want to punch something, and in fact, I dislike The 5th Wave so much I’ve somehow written not one but three ang ".bastardized sci-fi for the Twilight crowd." ".bastardized sci-fi for the Twilight crowd." Well this is awkward. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself.
To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker.
Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. Who have scatter After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. The 5th Wave is soon to be a feature film for GK Films and Sony Pictures.After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. As Cassie and the novel’s other young characters confront the dystopian hell-scape that the world has become, they also discover the incredible courage, humanity, and capacity for love that still exists within them. The 5th Wave is a science fiction adventure story as much as it is a coming-of-age tale for the modern day. Cassie Sullivan, a clever, brave, and sarcastic sixteen-year-old girl, must negotiate her way through an apocalyptic landscape in order to rescue her five-year-old brother Sammy from a military compound that is, in fact, an alien training ground for a children’s army-which is to be the instrument of the aliens’ final, 5th Wave of destruction. The 3rd Wave brings a viral plague that leaves only 3% of Earth’s population alive. In the 2nd Wave, they decimate the Earth’s coastal populations with tsunamis. In the 1st Wave of their invasion, they knock out the power grid. The novel takes place in a world very much like the present day, with one important exception: alien visitors have come to Earth, and they are not friendly.
The 5th Wave, published in May of 2013, is the first book in Yancey’s latest trilogy. In 2010, Yancey was awarded the Michael L. The first in the series, The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, was a Carnegie medal finalist for 2005 and was named Publisher Weekly’s Best Book of the Year. In addition to his memoir, Yancey is the author of thirteen books, including the highly acclaimed Alfred Kropp series for young adults. Yancey’s experience with the IRS is documented in his memoir, Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man’s Tour of Duty Inside the IRS (2004). He worked for the Internal Revenue Service for twelve years before becoming a full-time author in 2004. Richard Yancey, a native of Florida, graduated from Chicago’s Roosevelt University with a B.A.
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