The 5th Wave By Rick Yancey

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The 5th Wave The title of this book is The 5th Wave, written by Rick Yancey. I will be providing a review for this book. In my opinion, this is an excellent book for a couple of reasons. It contains a great deal of characteristics and detail so you can visualize what is occurring. It also presents more than one point of view so people can scrutinize it in multiple ways. In this book, four, terrible incidents occur in the world: the 1st wave (lights out), the 2nd wave (surf’s up), the 3rd wave (pestilence), and the 4th wave (silencers). Cassie, the main character, survives through these first four waves. Each person in her family dies except for her little brother. When her brother is taken, she tries her hardest to find and return to him.

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