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Each has a special side of the story that’s heart-wrenching and interesting. The story is told from multiple points of view: Cassie Sullivan, Sammy Sullivan, Evan Walker and Ben Parish.

This is the main theme of Yancey’s novel and a troubling one that brings an intensity and realism that kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. This is when we’re presented with one of the most dangerous problems we could have as humans: the loss of our humanity. Yancey instead gives us an unseen enemy that hides among humans, sleeping in bodies of people we know and love, waking when the 5th wave dawns.īut how do we handle it when we don’t know who to trust? What do we do when our adrenaline is pulsing and it’s life or death? Trust or don’t trust? No more do we see giant bug-eyed creatures that have the same bipedal form that we do. The 5th Wave strays away from the typical alien invasion story. They drive off into the sunset.The Fifth Wave by New York Times bestselling author Rich Yancey is a thrilling tale of humanity and invasion– but not in the way that we’ve seen before. They're picked up by Ringer and the other squad members just in the nick of time. They're blocked by Colonel Vosch, who threatens to kill all of them like the maniac he is.Together, the three of them head for the exit. He gets a little more than he bargained for: Cassie found Sammy first.Ben takes advantage of a base-wide alarm to escape his hospital room and track down Sammy.He can't test it yet because Ben's still recovering from his injury. Back at the base, Vosch seems suspicious of Ben's story.

Bound and determined to rescue Sammy, a young squad member they "left behind" at the base (he was too young for the mission), Ben has Ringer shoot him in the stomach so he'll be medically evacuated.

During the mission, Ringer, Ben's smartest squad member, figures out that all of their commanding officers are secret aliens.

Their mission is to kill any aliens they encounter, who they identify with a special eyepiece gadget thingie.

He and his squad are sent out into the fray.

(He's calling himself Zombie now, but we'll stick with Ben for clarity's sake.) He trains hard with his fellow squad mates, and they eventually graduate at the top of their class.

Ben regains his will to live after a conversation with Colonel Vosch, who encourages him to fight back against the aliens.

He doesn't kill himself, but he stops eating.

After Ben's body recovers, his mind takes a dark turn.

He has the alien plague, but he miraculously recovers.

Ben ends up at Camp Haven, a military base.

It was super traumatic, and Ben's haunted by the loss of his little sis.

His family died sometime between the First and Third Waves after they were attacked by human looters.

Before the aliens came, Ben was the high school football star.