The Passage meets The Hunger Games in The 5th Wave
- a gripping new series from Carnegie-shortlisted Rick Yancey. After the 1st wave only darkness remains. After the 2nd only the lucky escape. & 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. 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 until Cassie meets Evan Walker. Beguiling & mysterious Evan may be her only hope for rescuing her brother & even saving herself. Now she must choose: between trust & despair between defiance & surrender between life & death. To give up or to get up. Cassie Sullivan gets up. About the author: Rick Yancey is the author of several adult novels & the memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector. His first young-adult novel The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. In 2010 his novel The Monstrumologist received Michael L. Printz Honor & the sequel The Curse of the Wendigo was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Praise for The 5th Wave: This is DAMN & WOW territory. Quite simply one of the best books I've read in years". (Melissa Marr New York Times bestselling author). " Breathtakingly fast-paced & original The 5th Wave is a reading tsunami that grabs hold & won't let go". (Melissa De La Cruz New York Times bestselling author of the Blue Bloods series). " An epic sci-fi adventure about a terrifying alien invasion. You'll read it in one sitting". (Bookseller). " Yancey's heartfelt violent paranoid epic filled with big heroics & bigger surprises is part War of the Worlds part Starship Troopers part Invasion of the Body Snatchers & part The Stand.. .a sure thing for reviewers & readers alike". (Booklist (starred review)). "A gripping SF trilogy about an Earth decimated by an alien invasion.. .the question of what it means to be human is at the forefront". (Publishers Weekly)."