Finished reading The 5th Wave. It was amazing! I just purchased the 2nd book, The Infinite Sea and should receive it by next week. So excited to read it. The 3rd book will be out this May!!!
This story is about an alien invasion but not like the green creature with big black eyes. It's more along the lines of Ender's Game Xenocide alien. I really enjoyed this story. I liked the characters and their development. I like the world building. This author took bits and pieces from other sci-fi stories to create his and he doesn't really try to hide it either, such as:
The Stand by Stephen King
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
The love story is very simple and yet complex. Cassie loves a boy from her high school whom doesn't know her at all. She later falls for the human-alien guy Evan Walker. I like Evan myself...LOL. Anywho, the romance/love story, whatever you want to call it, is pretty funny, cute and stuff. I love the humor throughout the book. One of my favorite funniest part was when Cassie was trying to escape with the guy she had the hots for in high school...his name is Ben Parish, and she says:
"I know the way but I don't know the way to the way."
Ben gives her a funny look and says something like, "The way to the way?"
Then a bit after that he says, "I know the way and the way to the way."
Hahahahaha! Yeah. Just silly little things like that crack me up.