The 5th wave
By Rick Yancey
book report by Jade Dogan
Cassie Sullivan is your average teenage girl. She led a normal life just like everyone else. That is before they arrived. When the mothership first arrived some people were scared. Other people thought the aliens came to make peace with the humans. At first the humans didn't notice anything different. They even forgot the ship was up in the sky because they thought everything was going to be okay. The people who were scared were right to be scared. With their advanced technology the aliens sent out catastrophic waves to wipe out the human race. Over the course of the story Cassie tries to reunite with her younger brother who was taken by the others during the earlier part of the book.
The genre of this book would be considered dystopian/post-apocalyptic. I would say this genre fits this book well. Mostly everyone Cassie knows is dead along with most of the human race. The book starts out in Cassie's point of view telling her side of the story, but the point of view changes from person to person throughout the course of the story. I would say the language of this book is convincing. All of the characters are not proper and grammatically correct. They talk like regular people would talk if in their situation.
what's left
After the deadly waves the aliens sent out the earth is in ruins. Most of the humans are dead except for the few survivors including Cassie and her brother. There is a shortage in food and other resources they need to survive.
The mothership
Throughout the story the mothership is still in the sky. Every movement the humans make is being watched by the others inside the motheship
Who to trust
The humans don't know who to trust. The others are not only killing the humans, they are also training other humans to help kill off the rest of the humans. Nobody can be trusted.
The 5th Wave - Official Trailer #1 (Chloe Grace Moretz & Nick Robinson)