The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey

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.

(Now a major motion picture**)

BBreview rating 1 star. **not recommended**

I have to be honest with this review, there are many books I can hate but then at the end I am in love with that book. however that was just not the case with this book at all. I endured this book for as long as I possible could. I read Cassie's views in the beginning of the book, but then it turned into someone else talking named Bubby who saw first hand this "egg" Alien planted into his friends head. Then I read about some shooter trying to kill Cassie, by this time i was barely able to keep my eyes open. By part three of the book i had to put it in my can not read pile.

I literally wasted a week trying to get into this book. what is sad is many parts of this book was screaming The Host by Stephanie Meyer the same author of the Twilight series. I am pretty sure most of my reader's have read that book where they take people (humans) and implant a host in their body which is an alien to live in that planet and learn their ways. so basically this 5th wave is that book in a horrible version rip off way.

It's sad when they make a movie about a book like this and call it a number one best selling when really its a piece of junk that should be left in the do not print or publish pile for amateurs. I saw so many bad reviews for this movie and book that it just makes me wonder what the people who did give it good reviews really thought. I know this is a sci-fi young adult book but I'm just saying it did not make an impression with me or my team. we saw nothing different in it from The Host. Its not original, does not have a set them, the plot is all over the place, and it drops the focus more than once right when the plot gets interesting.

So I saw if you want to "try" and read it then I suggest going to the library and taking it out for two weeks and try reading it before you spend 10 dollars on it and regret it afterwards. BBreview does not recommend this book and its on our top ten hated books of 2016.