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I'm honestly wondering how anyone who is a true fan of this series gave this book a 5 star rating. I wrestled between a 1 and a 3, finally landing on the 2 for the following reasons: (Spoilers ahead...) Cassie has always been the main character despite the changing POV. I really think Yancey did a wonderful job with her character growth through the series and her ending. It was heartbreaking, but beautiful. I'm still upset she didn't realize Evan Walker's true love until it was too late to celebrate it fully with him, but I can tell Yancey wanted a more "real-life" ending for all of his characters instead of fairy tale love stories (which I think is a great idea). Also, the religious references and the complete loss of faith in the end of the world was realistically well-done.

With all of that said, why did I hate this book? The first 2 books (which became 2 of my favorite YA novels ever) built all fans up in a way that we were aching for the explanation of the invasion. Well...in this book we find out all the aliens are actually dead and technology is controlling the whole thing, but how? We still don't know how Vosch knows all that he knows and how he came to be. We don't know why the Others decided to kill the human race and what they planned to do with Earth after. And there was a point where Vosch was saying there were only a limited amount of escape pods and when Evan Walker asks why, Vosch says he will explain...but doesn't. At all. It's a total mess that left me with more questions than the speculations of the invasion I had from the first 2 books! I have to add: in the second book it was hinted that the 5 waves might not be from aliens, but from human government instead. It was never said outright, but it could have been a possibility. In the third book, it would have made way more sense when Vosch was semi-explaining to say that the government did it as a means for population control to save the Earth instead of aliens were doing it to save the Earth, but giving no more information after that.

I don't even want to mention how he butchered Ringer's character, but I have to. Her character is meant to be apathetic, but then we see interesting character growth in the second book when she insta-falls for Razor (which I hated but rolled with). It's worse in this book when she keeps thinking about Razor but saying she doesn't love and blah blah blah, but then we get hints her reason for being is Zombie/Ben Parish? What? Oh, and she's pregnant. The apathetic badass chick turns wishy-washy and pops out a daughter. I'M SO MAD. There was no gradual character growth. Ringer just became completely different and wrong for no reason.

Lastly, Yancey's writing style was choppy in this one. What was happening wasn't always fully explained. I also got serious whiplash from all the ridiculous POV changing, which made reading more confusing than it needed to be.

I expected so much more from this book. So much more. I know from friends and reading other reviews on here that I am not alone in my disappointment.

If you're a fan, read this last book to join in on this debate. If you haven't read the first two books, don't start because you will be devestated when you get to the last one.


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The Last Star The Final Book of The 5th Wave Rick Yancey Books Reviews

I have to say that overall the series is good and held my interest, but the last book left me feeling a little empty. I finished the entire series in about 5 days (Christmas break/traveling) so it's all fresh in my mind. I can understand the ending and appreciate the beauty in it, but overall it left me feeling kind of depressed and hopeless. Unless that's what the author was going for being that the story was told in a post apocalyptic world. Without giving too much away, I was hoping for things to be more resolved overall.

Spoiler*** It seemed the sacrifice (though it saved the world from bombing), didn't really matter since the plan was to eradicate the military bases and victims anyway. Having Evan live was especially sad and depressing knowing his future plans at the very end of the book. I guess the author just wanted the story to be raw and really show humanity's lack of empathy. The negative religious moments were a bit heavy and have been overplayed in the Hollywood (the evil priest...quoting the Bible and then killing a group of people while they sleep). Is everyone who is religious either crazy, ignorant, or ruthlessly evil? I wonder if Yancy will write another book with Evan's story.

Also, Cassie's character became more whinny, self centered, and almost unlikeable in this one. She was one of my favorites in the other books, but it seemed that Ringer who was a secondary character initially, was now put front and center. Great first 2 books, just a bit of a disappointment for the ending. I would say my vote would be more for 2.5 stars, but I gave it 3 since it's part of the series.
According to my , this book clocked in at 339 pages. The true fact though is that for the most part it could have been a 50 page extension of Infinite Sea. The segment of the book including the final showdown was interesting, but everything necessary to get there was just plodding along aimlessly. I was really hoping for some twist to the "big reveal" about the aliens in Infinite Sea, but all we got was a little elaboration and no real surprises.

The most disappointing factor was the missed opportunities though. Ringer's "surprise" early in the book gets a couple of further mentions throughout, but you never really buy that it is the struggle that it should be. Meanwhile, you do not get enough POV struggle of Evan dealing with the information he was given about his true nature. Seeing the raw human struggle of both of those things more clearly would have made this a better novel.

If you've read the first two books, you might as well finish the series. I disagree with those who say that characters were ruined and other doom and gloom like that, but I don't think it adds much in its own right.
I'm honestly wondering how anyone who is a true fan of this series gave this book a 5 star rating. I wrestled between a 1 and a 3, finally landing on the 2 for the following reasons (Spoilers ahead...) Cassie has always been the main character despite the changing POV. I really think Yancey did a wonderful job with her character growth through the series and her ending. It was heartbreaking, but beautiful. I'm still upset she didn't realize Evan Walker's true love until it was too late to celebrate it fully with him, but I can tell Yancey wanted a more "real-life" ending for all of his characters instead of fairy tale love stories (which I think is a great idea). Also, the religious references and the complete loss of faith in the end of the world was realistically well-done.

With all of that said, why did I hate this book? The first 2 books (which became 2 of my favorite YA novels ever) built all fans up in a way that we were aching for the explanation of the invasion. Well...in this book we find out all the aliens are actually dead and technology is controlling the whole thing, but how? We still don't know how Vosch knows all that he knows and how he came to be. We don't know why the Others decided to kill the human race and what they planned to do with Earth after. And there was a point where Vosch was saying there were only a limited amount of escape pods and when Evan Walker asks why, Vosch says he will explain...but doesn't. At all. It's a total mess that left me with more questions than the speculations of the invasion I had from the first 2 books! I have to add in the second book it was hinted that the 5 waves might not be from aliens, but from human government instead. It was never said outright, but it could have been a possibility. In the third book, it would have made way more sense when Vosch was semi-explaining to say that the government did it as a means for population control to save the Earth instead of aliens were doing it to save the Earth, but giving no more information after that.

I don't even want to mention how he butchered Ringer's character, but I have to. Her character is meant to be apathetic, but then we see interesting character growth in the second book when she insta-falls for Razor (which I hated but rolled with). It's worse in this book when she keeps thinking about Razor but saying she doesn't love and blah blah blah, but then we get hints her reason for being is Zombie/Ben Parish? What? Oh, and she's pregnant. The apathetic badass chick turns wishy-washy and pops out a daughter. I'M SO MAD. There was no gradual character growth. Ringer just became completely different and wrong for no reason.

Lastly, Yancey's writing style was choppy in this one. What was happening wasn't always fully explained. I also got serious whiplash from all the ridiculous POV changing, which made reading more confusing than it needed to be.

I expected so much more from this book. So much more. I know from friends and reading other reviews on here that I am not alone in my disappointment.

If you're a fan, read this last book to join in on this debate. If you haven't read the first two books, don't start because you will be devestated when you get to the last one.