Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. This sci-fi dystopian adventure is slowly roping me in.
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Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. So, it’s a lack-lustre review from me, and not something I would not recommend. I really think all that changing of perspective did a massive disservice to this book.Īnd ultimately, I did not particularly enjoy the ending. So while all of the tools of great novel writing were there – it failed to get me emotionally invested. I found in last few chapters there was a lot of repetition, killing the pace and pulling me from the narrative.
This series had a character-driven start, and a plot-driven end. It’s not a bad book, the writing is still top notch, the story line is complex and interwoven through all the characters, though it failed to tug at my heart strings. I put a lot of investment in Cassie and was dished up with so many other characters… grrr. Introducing new characters so late in the series, and not having them built up and established in previous volumes made it hard to care about them at all. The story is still interesting, and I enjoyed the plot, but it lacked the soul and desperation I was craving. Why set up a precedence in the first novel and not follow it through? I got very frustrated. With a lot of the “alieness” about the invasion still feeling unsubstantiated and irrelevant because it’s an alien, there are no human rules to attribute to the way we were invaded… All those answers I was hoping to get – well they were explained, but just not as astounding as I wanted them to be. This is the final book, the climax right? There was all this hype, all this desperate clamour for survival and then * plink* – where was the big splash?Īgain, ‘ The Last Star’ fell victim to the issues I had with ‘ The Infinite Sea.’ We start the trilogy off with Cassie, connecting with her plight and personal story, and then in the last two books we get very little of her POV. And it left me feeling yeah, okay… umm nice? I mean we are in the death throes of an alien invasion, don’t know who to trust, who’s the enemy – it’s high stakes drama. It sucked the emotion out of what could have been a satisfyingly gut wrenching book. Much more so than its predecessors combined. It was hard to connect with the narrative because of the constant changing of POV. Especially towards the end with the introduction of new characters. But this book was underwhelming, I kinda liked it, but it lacked punch. Notoriously the last books in a series are where you get the bang for your buck and considering that the second instalment was a little *bleh* I was looking forward to a momentous culmination reminiscent of its debut. I was really excited to read the final chapter in the Fifth Wave trilogy. In these last days, Earth’s remaining survivors will need to decide what’s more important: saving themselves…or saving what makes us human. 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. An ending to the trilogy – executed like a belly-flop.