If you are looking for a book to be entertained (and frightened) by, then read this. Though I love to read, I’ve never had such a hard time putting down a book. Rarely have I experienced such a thrilling novel.
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I have no idea how to categorize this book. There is non-fiction, realistic fiction, fantasy, and then there is The 5th Wave. Each of them is unique and courageous, and I admire the way they keep fighting and never give up. I not only feared for their safety, but wondered what it would be like to be in their shoes. These kids are trying to avoid being murdered, just like the billions and billions before them. This is not a novel about your average teenagers struggling to make it through high school. I cannot lie and say that this book did not scare me. In her journey to find and rescue him, she meets Evan Walker, who has many secrets but a heart so true that Cassie falls in love with him, even though her mottos for survival are “Stay alone” and “Trust no one.” The main character is Cassie, who spends most of the novel searching for her brother, Sammie, who she believes is still alive. Throughout the novel, a few of the survivors tell their stories. When the book begins, most of the earth’s population has already been wiped out by an alien invasion. As soon as I picked it up, I could not put it down. Scott Parsons is an English teacher and the director of the Osborne Writing Center at Hathaway Brown.Ī couple of years ago, I received The 5th Wave for Christmas. Wave four: Aliens in human form take up weapons and start picking off the survivors, who have been reduced to a small and manageable number.Īs for The 5th Wave, the less said the better as it forms a cunning and compelling plot that drives the bulk of a novel that, whether you are an adult or teen reader, is very worth your time. Wave Three: a bird-carried super-virus that kills four billion. Wave Two: Create a massive tsunami by dropping a metal rod from space onto a fault line. Five hundred thousand lives lost in a matter of seconds.
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In one especially chilling scene, children at school run to look out the windows after all power shuts down to see planes dropping out of the sky. Six thousand years later, they have a plan. That sounds tricky, but the aliens actually arrived a long time ago to begin observing life on earth. That means they have to eliminate human existence without damaging the ecosystem in the process.
Because Yancey’s aliens haven’t traveled across incomprehensibly vast (to humans, at least) stretches of the universe to pay us a friendly visit they’ve come to take Earth off our hands for their own use and to ensure their future survival. Because catching their attention might draw them here, and “if aliens visit us,” he says, “the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.” In short, don’t expect aliens of the Close Encounters or “we come in peace” model-think The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. Real enough, in fact, that revered cosmologist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has issued quite serious warnings that we need to stop broadcasting signals into space in case we catch their attention. Book Review: A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan PARENT REVIEW | by Scott ParsonsĪliens seem to have a stronger capacity to frighten now than ever-maybe because they have the fear factor advantage of possibly existing.
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