ZERO stars! Honestly. To say I didn't like it would be the understatement of the year. Yancey fabricated here the biggest mashup of alien-invasion chiches & tropes I've come across in a single book. Not a bad thing per se, it just doesn't add up! Decimating the leftovers of humanity with brainwashed kids, while there are plenty of rambo-like soldiers left from the 4th Wave?! Very bad resource management. No wonder they had to leave their planet/galaxy. The invaders are an incredibly intelligent, bodiless conscience, thousands of hundreds of years old. The same ones whom it took 6000 years to (literally) stalk humanity to learn their ways of thinking. (We are not that complicated, weird aliens.) The love story is even weirder. The alien falls for the human, because... we don't get to know. Who cares, he loves her and has nice cuticles and hands like soft clouds (quoting the heroine here). She falls for him because he stalks her? Because he is lying to her nonstop and is obsessive? I may give the film a try, on a day when I'll run out of books...

Really liked the 1st person narrator here! I felt close to the characters, they all had their own type of writing and the monologues in their heads where just pretty realistic and all the emotions came through. Very well done by the author! A minor minus point: The whole invasion doesn‘t seem much too realistic to me from to point where the 5th wave starts. The first four waves, I get those. But child soldiers killing off each other and the remaining survivors? What kind of extinction plan is that? But maybe we‘ll learn more about that in the following books.

4.5 stars One word: Wow. But before I say anything else, I had a hard time to get into it at first. I don't really know why, it's captivating and thrilling and I was super excited but at the same time I was constantly confused and irritated! Cassie is an awesome character! She's badass and brave and strong and sceptical about everything, which is good because ... well, aliens? war? She's alone and there are "Silencers" everywhere? You can't just run around and trust everyone you see ... I loved Cassie's thoughts and also her humor! It's like I relived her memories and emotions and all the danger ... but without actual aliens here. :) I liked the changing POV's a lot! Especially Ben Parish's POV was amazing to read and I always looked forward to them - I really started to like him and I was so scared he might die or get killed or something else might happen to him, ugh. But Sams! I loved how protective Ben was over him! Especially those last scenes, where he comes back for lil' Nugget and wants to save him, god. That made me love Parish even more! HE'S AWESOME!! Another favorite was, of course, Evan Walker! He's a perfect, goodlooking farm boy that washes your hair, cooks you food and always helps you in general. He's also super good with guns and other weapons ... quite handy during an alien invasion, right? Gosh, I loved him so so much! At first I wasn't sure about him and especially when I read Cassie's sceptical thoughts ... well, I agreed with her. His scenes with Cassie were all amazing! I loved every little one of them, no matter how tiny and unimportant they were! The story/plot itself was thrilling and very well thought out! I never read alien-invasion stories or something like that but of course I saw some movies and knew what I had to expect ... and still, this was SO MUCH BETTER! Everything made sense in the end and well, talking about the end ... HOW AWESOME AND CRUEL AT THE SAME TIME WAS THAT?!? It leaves you with so many questions and you're worried about what happens next and if everyone survives and and and - just PERFECT! Damnit, I'm so excited for "The Infinite Sea" now! I can't wait to continue the amazing journey with all those amazing characters!

Inhalt: Die erste Welle brachte Dunkelheit. Die zweite Zerstörung. Die dritte ein tödliches Virus. nach der vierten Welle gibt es nur noch eine Regel fürs Überleben: Traue niemandem! Das hat auch Cassie lernen müssen, denn seit der Ankunft der Anderen hat sie fast alles verloren: Ihre Freunde und ihre Familie sind tot, ihren kleinen Bruder haben sie mitgenommen. Das Wenige, was sie noch besitzt, passt in einen Rucksack. Und dann begegnet sie Evan Walker. Er rettet sie, nachdem sie auf der Flucht vor den Anderen angeschossen wurde. Eigentlich weiß sie, dass sie ihm nicht vertrauen sollte. Doch sie geht das Risiko ein und findet schon bald heraus, welche Grausamkeit die fünfte Welle für sie bereithält ... (Klappentext) Meine Meinung: Ich muss zugeben, ich habe von diesem Buch wirklich viel erwartet. Der Einstieg hat mich dann eher ein wenig enttäuscht. Wobei er nicht schlecht war, nur noch so mitreißend wie ich es erwartet hatte. Wir lernen Cassie kennen, Ben bzw. Zombie, einen Silencer und Evan. Auch wenn die Geschichte nach den ersten vier Wellen startet, werden wir besonders durch Cassies Erinnerungen auf den aktuellen Stand gebracht. Das ganze Szenario ist (passend zur Story) trist und hoffnungslos. Mit den Kapiteln/Teilen wechselt die Sicht zwischen den Charakteren, was mir gefallen hat. Ich war froh, von Cassies aussichtsloser Situation wegzukommen. Das wirklich großartige an dem Buch ist, dass mein keine Ahnung hat was passieren wird. Manchmal hatte ich so ein Gefühl in welche Richtung die Charaktere gehen werden, doch meistens war ich einfach nur gespannt was passiert. Wenn man sich einmal auf das Sezenario eingelassen hat, ist es absolut mitreißend! Ich war bis zu den letzten Seiten unter Strom. Eine wirklich gut ausgedachte Geschichte die mitreißt. Cassie, war zu Beginn des Buches nicht besonders spannend, genau wie Evan. Erst zum Finale hin haben mich die beiden wirklich gefesselt. Ben und Sammy haben es mir wirklich angetan - die Geschichte um die beiden war großartig und ich konnte gar nicht aufhören zu lesen. Das Buch lässt sich super lesen! Besonders gefallen hat mir (ausnahmsweise, meistens kann ich damit nichts anfangen) die direkte Anrede von Zeit zu Zeit. Teilweise auch herrlich ehrliche Sätze in einer jugendlichen Sprache, passend, da die Hauptcharaktere alle Jugendlich sind. Das Ende hat mich wirklich gefesselt! Ein tolles Finale, das einen entscheidenden Punkt offen lässt und mich nur so nach dem nächsten Teil schreien lässt. Mein Fazit: Eine klassische Dystopie mit interessanter Story, tollen Charakteren und einem Endzeitszenario das absolut fesselnd ist. Definitiv ein Buch das jeder Dystopie-Fan lesen sollte! Ich hatte wirklich Spaß mit dem Buch.

OH MY OH MY.... Evan... I would have been permanently jumping up and down throughout the last chapters if this wouldn't have put the health of my book at risk (or the one of my legs, for that matter, though i guess i would not have really cared about that xD) The book was overall very compelling and I probably would have read it in one sitting if my family wouldn't always feel the urge to disturb me just when I'm about to open my book. Oh well, I guess like this I was at least able to enjoy it over a longer period of time :3

* 3.5 stars I guessed major plots in this book...those plots where really obvious. But besides it was a great book :) good idea! It was tough to listen to it, because it became so confusing with all those time jumps and waves and what not. I liked the different voices :) Zombie was so cool! But I really don't like the future love triangle. It's really not necessary. But I don't like the actual shipping either....my dream ship (idk because they really weren't that close) became real...maybe. I'm not sure. It happened on the last page and I was so confused. Curious about the second book :) but some people say it's boring :/ I really don't want a love triangle...it would work out just great without any love xD oh man .-.

This was one of my first Sci-Fi books, and I loved it! The story was great, and I loved Evan the second I "met" him. The only thing that annoyed me was Cassie. I didn't understand her thinking sometimes and her voice got a bit annoying. Nevertheless one of the best reads this year! 4|5 Stars!