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3/10
The 5th Wave
Reviews / July 19, 2015

by Rick Yancey This book is probably not the worst I’ve read, but it sure isn’t the best. It’s an OK book, nothing else. Personally I don’t like the style of writing, I find it confusing, repetitive and “jumpy”. One moment we’re in present tense, the next it past tense. It also feels like some events are skipped and you’re not sure about what’s really happening. Sentences feel backwards and…I don’t know how to explain it other than to say it took at least two reads to make sense of some sentences. The first half was decent (and here I kind of liked Cassie’s voice) and I managed to read that in just a day, but the second half of the book took me so much longer and I had to fight to read it to the end. Also, Cassie’s voice seemed to change and she became forgettable and boring, and just faded out into oblivion. Cassie started out an annoying whiny girl and ended up just the same, which is ashame. Also the whole POV thing was super confusing at times and you had to go back several paragraphs sometimes just do double check who was talking since it…