Similar to the first two titles in the trilogy ( The 5th Wave, 2013, and The Infinite Sea, 2014), this action-packed conclusion starts with a ghastly, ominous tableau then unfolds through the voices of its various heroines, heroes, and villains.
The story takes place over the final four days before 5th Wave soldiers are unleashed to destroy every city in the world. On the heels of their mind-boggling discovery of the origin of the “others”-humans who they were tricked into thinking were aliens-Yancey’s cast of child soldiers and assassins plots to stop the planet’s takeover, led by the evil Vosch, who’s responsible for the mass murder of billions of innocent humans. Agent: Brian DeFiore, DeFiore and Co.Cassie, Ringer, Ben (aka Zombie), and company fight the final frontier to save the last vestiges of human life on Earth. "To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything." Ages 14%E2%80%93up. Ben perhaps gets to the heart of Yancey's theme when he says the only way to win against an irrational foe is to hold onto his humanity. After hundreds of pages of violent, nonstop action, the ending provides both satisfaction and heartbreak. Current events make it harder to read this dystopian epic as escapist literature when some plot elements%E2%80%94like the Others' use of suicide bombers not old enough to know what they're doing%E2%80%94are far from implausible. This final installment of Yancey's 5th Wave trilogy again unspools from multiple perspectives, keeping readers as off-balance as the characters, who must adjust to a world where they can trust no one. Silencers roam the countryside picking off survivors. Those still alive cannot let down their guard. Six weeks have passed since readers left Cassie, Ben, and their skeletal crew clinging to life at the end of The Infinite Sea, limping toward a final confrontation with the Others, inscrutable aliens who have engineered the near-extinction of the human race.
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