REVIEW: The 5th Wave (#1) - Rick Yancey

Title: The 5th Wave (#1)
Author: Rick Yancey
Series: The 5th Wave
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 457 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors? To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes until she meets Evan Walker.

Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

Thoughts

I had heard a lot of mixed reviews about this book, especially when it came to the different perspectives that the book is written in as these are not defined by who we are following.

I was surprised by how much I actually enjoyed this book and what I was fearful of with the different perspectives was actually OK. I managed to follow the book easily as it did flow so well, the book is seen in the perspectives of Cassie (our main character), Ben Parish (Cassie's High School crush), and Evan Walker (someone Cassie meets on the way).

I loved Cassie, I thought she was a fantastic character, and even though she'd been through so much loss, she was still fighting and was not going to let The Others win.
With this, you do think it is going to turn into a love triangle between Cassie, Evan, and Ben, but it doesn't the main relationship for Cassie is Evan (who is one of my favourite characters).
I loved Cassie and Evan together they seemed to have more chemistry and worked well together.

I found the story to be different to what I have read before, with alien stories you expect them to come down to Earth and start shooting, but what is so different with this story is that you don't actually get to see The Others in any such form. The story also wasn't just about the aliens invading, but it was based more on family and Cassie's search for Sam (her little brother)

Overall a really great book, and after the ending of the book, I need to know what happens next.