BOOK REVIEW: THE 5TH WAVE by RICK YANCEY

OVERALL RATING: 7 /10

            STORY: 6/10

            CHARACTERS: 9/10

            THE FEELS: 8 / 10

            ENTERTAINMENT: 8 / 10

 PLOT: 6 / 10

SYNOPSIS: 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.....

           

          The hype of this book right now is pretty high which made me buy and read this as soon as possible, but sad to say, I am not saying that it’s a bad read its just a disappointment because maybe I expected too much from this book? I don’t know.

Over all it’s a good read and kind of entertaining and Yancey wrote it with original taste of his own style. I like the characters but I just don’t like how the story went from page to the next. I felt that the novel could do much better than what it delivered to me after reading it.

 If you guys have read the Partial series by Dan Wells then maybe you can also feel the same way as what I feel between that novel and this right now, but Wells followed the first book with a perfect ten. Fragment by Wells, totally made me a number one fan of the trilogy and so I hope and I guess Yancey will do the same and will maybe even outsmart Partials trilogy of Wells.  

I am looking forward to the Infinite Sea, the next book, and I am praying that maybe Yancey will expand the plot, take a risk and blow our minds soon. The plot has the potential and I greatly believe that it can make a boom and take readers to a universe filled with epicness. I suggest to those that are interested and has not yet read this book, don’t expect too much. It’s a good read but not that great or shall we say it’s a little bit overrated.