The last 5th wave (based on a progress in informatics and telecommunications) is just coming to an end.

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch (a.k.a. It developed a new conception of waves of technological innovations in a modern society (from 1600 AD).

(We know that Zombie is Ben.) The point is: the story's disjointed nature keeps us wondering what's going to happen next. We turn the page and bam: 'Call me Zombie.' (25.1) At the end of Chapter 24, we're with Cassie, who's on death's door. Cassie and Ben don't just have separate points of view-they're in distant places doing different things. I am also the author of The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (finalist for the Carnegie Medal) and The Monstrumologist series, the first book of which received a Printz Honor. The author also builds excitement through the structure of the book, which jumps between narrators. The film adaptation of The 5th Wave hits theaters January 15, 2016. This is one exciting page-turner of a plot, which makes sense given its subject. In a book filled with nearly nonstop action, lines like that can feel a little over the top. (31.53)Įven Ben talks about 'the battlefield of his heart.' (63.3) With a cry only he could hear, the hunter turned. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.' (24.27-24.28)Īnd how about this, from the section on Evan: 'If I am the last one, then I am humanity. His books have been published in over twenty languages and. Yancey's prose is mostly even-keeled with subtle notes of humor, but occasionally he just goes for it and a character starts spewing lines that sound like they're coming straight out of a trailer for a summer blockbuster. Richard (Rick) Yancey is the author of several novels and a memoir. The melodrama we're referring to, though, is in the language itself. Call us crazy, but there's something a teeny tiny bit melodramatic about an alien invasion.

Author of the 5th wave