Author Rick Yancey
This post contains no spoilers and you probably won’t learn what the book is about either.
Genre – Young Adult Dystopian
The 5th Wave is not a lighthearted read. If you are looking for something more uplifting, maybe check out the obituaries in your local paper and go to a random funeral. Yes, this book is oozing despair, longing and fear; it has some humour, albeit dark.
The contrast of the tone and humor is best illustrated by the following two quotes:
First line –
‘Aliens are stupid.’
Best line –
‘And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead.’
Julia Satu 