Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be her only hope. To stay alone is to stay alive, until she meets Evan Walker. Runs from the beings that only look human, who have scattered Earth's last survivors. Read more THE DAWN OF THE 5TH WAVE On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs. After 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and Maze Runner* After the1st wave, only darkness remains. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' The New York Times *The 5th Wave is the first book in the bestselling series from award-winning Rick Yancey. *NOW A MAJOR FILM by Sony Pictures, starring Chloe Grace Moretz* 'Wildly entertaining. Now Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between life and death. On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs. Agent: Brian DeFiore, DeFiore and Co.Description for The 5th Wave: Book 1 Paperback. As in the Monstrumologist series, the question of what it means to be human is at the forefront-in the words of cartoonist Walt Kelly, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” It’s a book that targets a broad commercial audience, and Yancey’s aim is every bit as good as Cassie’s.

Yancey is more interested in examining how these world-shaking revelations affect characters who barely recognize what their lives have become. The story’s biggest twists aren’t really surprises the hints are there for readers to see. Meanwhile, 17-year-old “Zombie,” an unwitting military recruit, is facing a crisis of conscience.

A rare survivor of the invasion, 16-year-old Cassie, armed with an M16 rifle and her younger brother’s teddy bear, is trying to reunite with her brother and escape the “Silencer” (assassin) trying to kill her. The author fully embraces the genre, while resisting its more sensational tendencies (rest assured, though, there are firefights and explosions aplenty). Yancey makes a dramatic 180 from the intellectual horror of his Monstrumologist books to open a gripping SF trilogy about an Earth decimated by an alien invasion.

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