The 5th Wave
The 1st Wave took out half a million people.
The 2nd Wave put that number to shame.
The 3rd Wave lasted a little longer, twelve weeks... four billion dead.
In the 4th Wave, you can't trust that people are still people.
And the 5th Wave? No one knows. But it's coming.
On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs. Runs from the beings that only look human, who have scattered Earth's last survivors.
To stay alone is to stay alive, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be her only hope.
Now Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death.
Georgia Peach Book Award Nominee for Honor book (2014); South Carolina Book Award for Young Adult (2016); Keystone to Reading Book Award Nominee for High School (2015); Evergreen Teen Book Award (2016); Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2014); Iowa High School Book Award (2016); The Inky Awards Nominee for Silver Inky (2013); Lincoln Award Nominee (2015); Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2013); Carnegie Medal Nominee (2014); Green Mountain Book Award (2015); Louisiana Teen Readers' Choice (2016); Gateway Readers Award (2016); Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award for High School (2016); Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera perteneciente a saga (2013)
About the 5th Wave Series
Books in series order
- 1.The 5th Wave(2013)
- 2.The Infinite Sea(2014)
- 3.The Last Star(2016)
Reading age: 14+ years
This series should be read in order.
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.
Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker.
Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.