![]() ![]() Cassie gets rescued by a handsome stranger called Evan Walker and it's so conflicting to the reader and to Cassie while trying to decide whether we should trust him or whether we should shoot him in the head. For the majority of the novel we don't actually know who the bad guys are. The characters are all so believably real that I genuinely felt pain at some of the things that they experienced (the death of Oompa and Ben ripping his sutures running around after being shot in the side both two particularly harrowing moments) and as the twists and turns were revealed one after another I felt both confused and betrayed along with them. This is not the case with 'The 5th Wave'. ![]() ![]() I've read two other novels about aliens that stand out in my mind: 'War of the Worlds' by H.G Wells and 'The Host' by Stephenie Meyer, and while in retrospect they're probably both in the top ten books that I've ever read, at the time I just found them both so utterly unfeasible it took me weeks verging on months to read them. Normally, if I hear the description of a novel as being end of the world due to aliens, I expect that I'm going to get bored quickly.
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