And I bet they thought it was funny as hell. There’s no way to know for sure, but I bet the Others knew about the human aliens we’d imagined. It’s like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it. David slays Goliath, and everybody (except Goliath) goes home happy. They swoop down from the sky in their flying saucers to level New York and Tokyo and London, or they march across the countryside in huge machines that look like mechanical spiders, ray guns blasting away, and always, always, humanity sets aside its differences and bands together to defeat the alien horde. You know, the aliens we imagine, the kind of aliens we’d like to attack us, human aliens. The ones we made up, the ones we’ve been making up since we realized those glittering lights in the sky were suns like ours and probably had planets like ours spinning around them. No, I’m talking about the aliens inside our own heads. The Others are so far ahead of us, it’s like comparing the dumbest human to the smartest dog. should do for aliens what Twilight did for vampires.". I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."-Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review
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.
The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.Īfter the 1st wave, only darkness remains. They won’t replace the pleasure of reading, but I won’t actively avoid them either."Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."-Entertainment Weekly (Grade A) Though I can say this experience has made me more open to trying more audiobooks. I don’t know if I would have appreciated the different perspectives if I had read the text. I don’t know if I’d have liked the book as much in my own mental voice. However, I think this is, in part, due to the narration it really brought the story to life. I guess I’m just weird for wanting something different.Īll in all, I enjoyed the 5th wave. But I guess if a woman can fall for and marry a guy who admits to being addicted to her blood and wanting to kill her, a gal can enjoy being the bug to his boot. Sorry, but I prefer guys to view me as an equal, as human, not some bug to be crushed.
You have to be a special type of woman to swoon at being compared to and called a mayfly. Yes, I fell for parts of it, but I couldn’t get past the predator-prey dynamic of the relationship. I could have done without the Cassie-Evan romance. I think this is what made it so hard for Ben to accept he had been manipulated by the others: Zombie was an obedient soldier who didn’t want to see fault in his commanding officers, Ben was a teenager who couldn’t deny that things didn’t add up – the technology, the base, the kids – unless they were being controlled by the others. Ben tried his hardest to be Zombie, but he couldn’t kill off all of his Ben mannerisms.
Through Ben’s POV, I was able to see what it was like to be molded and manipulated by the others and slowly come to the realization that you aren’t on the side of the war you thought you were on. Cassie had to go through life questioning who she could trust, and if life was worth living, if she was all alone, and if keeping a promise was worth all the physical and emotional obstacles she had to face. Each wave killed millions to billions of people, but each time it also took away a bit of emotional stability and safety. Through Cassie’s POV, I was able to learn about both the physical and emotional devastation of each wave. I don’t think all of them were necessary, but I did like Cassie’s and Ben’s POVs. I also enjoyed the multiple perspectives. I liked and enjoyed the telling of the 5th wave more than I liked the movie. Phoebe Strole and Brandon Espinoza did an amazing job narrating and bringing the story to life. I don’t think I could have picked a better first book. First of all, the 5th wave is the first audiobook I’ve ever listened to.