I felt the male characters (Reznik being the exception) were simply done better. I do think this is an interesting case of a male writer using a female protagonist and trying to write from a female perspective. But I couldn’t reconcile the good with the fact that I flat out hated Cassie. The alien invasion was done extremely well, with the efficiency one would expect from a vastly superior race. I hope it does great and that loads of people enjoy reading it, it just didn’t do anything for me.

I can honestly say that by page 250 I was done and wanted it to be over. (Pre-conception #1?)ĭoing research on the internet and trolling the blog-o-sphere, this book is poised to be a blockbuster when it’s released. Are they here for our delicious resources? Do they think that human kind is a scourge in the universe? Do they not like our treatment of the planet? More than halfway through the book and the reader is still completely in the dark as to any details about the alien invaders. Why are they here? They sit in their ship and the reader has no idea what their motive is. They know what they’re doing, they wait patiently in their mother ship, releasing viruses and slowly and methodically destroying billions of lives, trying to break our will to resist. I mean come on!!! Is this your first rodeo!?! Not these aliens. I’ve always found it incredibly unbelievable that a vastly more intelligent race of aliens, with the technology to travel light-years across space, would then simply pit its military against our military, resulting in massive loss of life on both sides. Yancey handled the “invasion” of our planet. Starting with the aliens themselves…I will say I appreciate the way Mr. You know, the big-eyed, thin-armed, little evil geniuses that stand over your bed while you sleep. But I’ve seen mostly all of the alien movies and have read a fair number of novels on the subject (Whitley Strieber’s The Grays, being among the creepiest.) Films like Independence Day and Battle: Los Angeles don’t frighten me… It’s the “Fire in the Sky”, “The Fourth Kind”, “Signs”, “Dark Skies” aliens that keep me up at night. I imagine it’s what the antelope must feel when it knows there is no escaping the lion. We as a species are used to being at the top of the evolutionary ladder and I believe the possibility of being at the mercy of a vastly superior creature is terrifying to just about everyone. Without going into too much detail and to avoid strange looks from co-workers, I will simply say it’s because I can’t completely rule out the possibility of their existence and/or discredit their potential nefarious alien plans for the people of this planet. Frankly, aliens scare the #(*& out of me. To be honest, I had no idea that this book was about aliens and their invasion and eradication of human-kind.

The 5th wave by rick yancey