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"Okay so if I could pick an obsession besides coffee right now I would pick The 5th Wave." -Me

So here's a brief non-spoilery explanation about the book,or obviously  more known as a summary, because I can't just say that due to the idiot I am. Anyways, The 5th Wave is phase 5 of the alien invasion happening on earth, to wipe out humanity and take earth for their own, sounds fun I know.

Our main character, Cassie is a 17 year old badass, smart, sarcastic teenage girl. Cassie, not short for Cassandra or Cassidy, but for Cassiopeia.

So basically one day everything was just going by normally until suddenly this mothership comes across and it wasn't invisible or anything, people can see, they can see clearly that a HUGEASS MOTHERSHIP IS RIGHT ON TOP OF THEIR HEADS, not scary at all. So fellow earthlings were like, 'okay heyya up there we were just wondering watcha doin here, and just to be clear we are friends tho, right? um right?' and the aliens up there was just like '. . .' . So I mean obviously the people were starting to get batshit crazy, right I mean they're supposed to, I'm just saying.

So ten days they were there just, chillin. BUt on the tenth day BAM, they shut the lights on us, all the electricity went out. And that was just the beginning, of what seems to be the end.

Our main protagonist, Cassie, survived 4 of these waves like I said she's a badass, and we get to see the story progressing through her pov and we get to travel through her thoughts while these events occured. But we don't only get to explore the story through her pov, because there are other pov's.

I think thats really all I can say about this book without spoiling it, so if you haven't read this book, which I highly doubt, you totally should though if you haven't and come back and check out my spoilery parts of this review. Goodbye non-spoiler peeps!

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HELLO PEOPKE WHO HAVE READ THE 5TH WAVE! You have cascaded into the world of spoilers and discussions about The 5th Wave.

Lets start!

Okay there are so much things going on that I will be quite literally going all over the place with this review.

THE CHARACTERS IN THIS BOOK! I swear they were all just so easy to fall in love with, Cassie was great, her dad was great, SAMMY was adorably amazing, just so much amazing characters. Even at the beginning when Ben Parish was being described by Cassie I fell in love with him because I just feel everyone has those types of crushes, everyone has a Ben Parish. I have a Ben Parish and he still is a Ben Parish, ouch *heart physically crying* lol jk but for real I loved the way Cassie portrayed Ben it was just so adorkably cute, and the story about THE BABIES! It was so cute how Cassie said that if she ever met Ben again, she'd ask to him if he remembered the whole ordeal with the story of the babies in the bus, it was just too adorable. While we are talking about characters, Evan Walker. Can I say H. O. T. T. HOT! Evan was introduced so well in the story and played such an amazing role, regarding to what he was at first it scared me, and I so badly wanted Cassie to leave him but to not leave him at the same time, but I wanted her to run away from him but I want her to stay with him, ITS JUST SO COMPLICATED, but anyway yeah I loved the romance dynamics between Cassie, Evan and the not-exactly-present-there Ben.

OKAY MOVING ON! Hmm to come to think of it maybe I can manage to make this review not so all over the place, well we'll see, lmao.

THE RELATIONSHIPS IN THIS BOOK, I am not okay! And I am not just talking about the romance-y  relationships I mean ALL DA RELATIONSHIPS. Let me first talk about the family aspect of this book, it is so heartwarming and just so calming that despite the events happening Cassie's family is still whole and still feels like a family, I feel all warm up inside whenever there are family scenes. For example, the scene where their mother died, how Cassie's father stood by her til even her last hours didn't go ballistic over it and he didn't loose it, he just remained calm and loving, to his wife and the two childeren it was just so sweet, and Cassie's part in being there for her brother in that moment, and also being there for her dad, and telling him its okay to break down, that scene was just so emotional and I loved it. And the ever so present bond that Cassie and Sammy has is just amazing, I literally hugged my little brother when I was reading the scene where Sammy was on the big yellow school bus waving out to Cassie, and how he gave the bear to Cassie to protect and accompanied her it was just so emotionally amazingly put together, and I loved how Bear was so weirdly a big part of the plot annd Cassie's and Sammy's bond, and I particularally loved the scenes where Cassie had an actual 'conversation' with Bear its just so hillarious. Now as for the romance I am leaning more towards Cevan? Essie? I mena they are so cute and they also feel like endgame, and the witty and cute conversations they have are just to die for, I also kinda feel that Ben is into Ringer? right? yeah I think so, Ringer. I don't know about it but it feels like Benand Ringer is gonna happen, or is it just me? Another relationship worth talking about is NUGGET AND ZOMBIE RELATIONSHIP, I don't even know if I can fathom how giddy I felt reading Nugget and Zombie scenes, it was just as heartwarming as Cassie and Sammy scenes probably even better, by a little tho, but there is just so much feels in this book.

The end of this book was mind blowing, I knew this book is good, but I dont really ever expect too much because I don't want to be disssapointed but this book didn't dissapoint me at all, maybe there are a few things I'd change but all in all it was a very amazing book, and the end tied in together so well, how they all eventually came together, its just put together very well. All in all this book is a very good solid first book, and I can't wait to read what is to come in this story.

That is all from me, I'll see you guys soon with another book review, BAIII