The 5th Wave
by Rick Yancey
Format: Audibook via audible.com
Price: $14
Price: $14
How I heard about it: my awesome YAL conference
Basic Premise: Aliens have invaded unseen, taking out the human population in waves - the first was knocking out all power, the second was activating earthquakes, the third was releasing a plague, and the fourth was sending Silencers out to kill. Now, for the few who remain, there is no way to know who is human and who is the enemy. There is no one to trust, and the 5th is coming.
This book was a page-turner...though I wasn't turning any pages. I drove to Tulsa and back this week, and since I forgot to cancel my 30 day free trial of audible.com, I ended up with a free audiobook download. I chose this one.
I'm not a sci-fi girl. Never have been and probably never will be. I hate Star Trek and Star Wars and all of that garbage, but as I told my husband (who listens to audiobooks on his commute every day), it's not like that. It's...real. It could happen. It was fast-paced and action-packed - just the way I like these types of books to be. I'm not a huge fan of listening to audiobooks as first-time reads - I prefer to read the book and listen to the audio again later because I find it more difficult to concentrate if my eyes aren't trained on words. As a result, I used the back-30-seconds button quite a lot, and there were a few times when I wasn't really sure what was going on, probably because I pulled my brain for a second or two and then missed it. There was some language and some sexual references, but otherwise I thought it was really good and one my students would really enjoy. You really never know who is human and who isn't, and Yancey did a nice job of keeping that tension interesting.
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