“Yancey has capped off his riveting series with a perfect ending.”. It’s a satisfying end to an impressive trilogy, true to the characters and the world Yancey created.”- Entertainment Weekly “Yancey doesn’t hit the breaks for one moment, and the action is intense, but the language always stays lyrical and lovely. “A haunting, unforgettable finale.”- Kirkus Reviews “Yancey’s prose remains achingly precise, and this grows heavier, tighter, and more impossible to put down as the clock runs out…this blistering finale proves the truth of the first two volumes: it was never about the aliens.”- Booklist, starred review In these last days, Earth’s remaining survivors will need to decide what’s more important: saving themselves . . . Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us.īut beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed.

They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. Includes an exclusive diary entry from Cassie! Agent: Brian DeFiore, DeFiore and Co.The highly-anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling 5th Wave series. 'To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.' Ages 14%E2%80%93up.

Ben perhaps gets to the heart of Yancey's theme when he says the only way to win against an irrational foe is to hold onto his humanity. After hundreds of pages of violent, nonstop action, the ending provides both satisfaction and heartbreak. Current events make it harder to read this dystopian epic as escapist literature when some plot elements%E2%80%94like the Others' use of suicide bombers not old enough to know what they're doing%E2%80%94are far from implausible. This final installment of Yancey's 5th Wave trilogy again unspools from multiple perspectives, keeping readers as off-balance as the characters, who must adjust to a world where they can trust no one. Silencers roam the countryside picking off survivors.

Those still alive cannot let down their guard. Six weeks have passed since readers left Cassie, Ben, and their skeletal crew clinging to life at the end of The Infinite Sea, limping toward a final confrontation with the Others, inscrutable aliens who have engineered the near-extinction of the human race.

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