The 5th Wave is made by Rick Yancey. The story is about a girl named Cassie Sullivan, who is one of the last surviving people on Earth after a lots of bad things happened like alien invasions. The book is about a world where the aliens, known as the “Others,” have taken over the people through four waves of destruction:
The First Wave: is a big electromagnetic pulse that takes out all electronics, making the world a chaos. The Second Wave is a super big tsunami that wipes out coastal cities, causing millions of people to die. The Third Wave is a about a really bad virus that kills about all of the remaining people and the Fourth Wave is when the aliens begin using human, or “silencers,” to kill the last survivors. By the time the story begins, humanity is going to extinction, and Cassie is trying to survive in a world where there is no trust, and danger is everywhere. Cassie’s journey is because she is looking for her younger brother, Sammy, who has been taken by a military group. And while she is looking for him, she encounters Evan Walker, a mysterious boy who may or may not be alien.
“The enemy’s strategy is simple: If you don’t know who the enemy is, you can’t trust anyone.” – Cassie Sullivan. “The 5th wave is the last wave. The wave that ends the human race. And it’s already here.” – Rick Yancey
The title is the “fifth wave,” which is about how the alien plan to use human children to carry out their final assault on the persons in the whole world. These children are trained by the military to fight against the Others, though many of them don’t realize they are being manipulated.
This story has a diferente side between Cassie’s perspective and that of other characters, including Ben Parish (Cassie’s classmate before the caos begin), and Sammy, who each have their own roles in the fight for survival. The 5th Wave is the first book in a trilogy, like the “The Infinite Sea” and “The Last Star”.