The 5th Wave By: Rick Yancey

The 5^th Wave

By: Rick Yancey

“Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can here the stars scraping against the sky”

Cassie and Sam are two regular kids.  Sam is 5 years old and Cassie is 16.  Cassie goes to parties,   worries about her grads, has lots of friends and has a boy crush, Ben Parish.  That all ended when the others came, the others are aliens.  Their goal is there to wipe out all of humanity using the 4 waves.

The 1^st t wave is lights out where the others took away all of the power in the world which means no cars, no phones, no lights and no electronics.  The 2^nd wave is surfs up, where an earthquake is strong enough to shake the entire planet.  The 3^rd wave is Pestilence, where the others took one of the worst viruses in the world like Ebola and made it 20x worse and made it unstoppable. The 4^th wave is silencer; the others are now off the mother ship and begun haunting for survivors to kill them. But what is the 5^th wave?  

Cassie and Sam are now in a refugee camp and the military comes, the military say that they only have room to take the kids first and they will come back for the adults.  Sam and Cassie go onto the bus and one of the military men stops Cassie, the man seas Cassie can’t go on the bus with Sam and they start arguing.  Cassie doesn’t win and Sam gives Cassie his teddy bear, Sam tells Cassie do you promise if I give you teddy would you will keep teddy safe, Cassie promises and gives him a big hug, she gets off the bus and waves good bye. Will Cassie ever see Sam again?

I have not read the whole book but I’m more than half way through and I’ve seen the movie. Sometimes I think what if aliens are real and what if they come to earth, would they be friendly like they would share their experiences about space and teach us about their home planet or would they be evil and try to kill us and take over our home planet leaving humanity to extinction. Seeing a teenage girl like Cassie going through so many emotions like losing her mom, dad and her brother being taken to a military base not knowing what they would do to him, throughout the book you will notice once in a while Cassie would say “I promised I’ll come and get you Sam and I’ll never leave you alone again I promise”.  I love how keeps she keeps her promise when she’s a hundred miles away from Sam not knowing if he is dead or alive, no matter what would happen she will always keep her promise until she gets him back.

I recommended this book to anyone over 12-13 years old, if you like SI-FI, aliens, fighting, and a little bit of romance then this is the book for you! You can find this book in your local library and any bookstore.

By: Nicole