She lunges for her rifle, but shots are fired all around her. When she stands up to look at it, she’s shot in the leg. She sees three recently murdered people and then a drone. It was a crucifix.Ĭassie travels during the day because although she lacks the cover of darkness, she can spot the alien’s drones. She sees something shiny in his hand and shoots him. He drops his weapon and asks her to do the same. She finds a teenage boy with a bad injury in an old gas station. ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** Details – What happened in The 5th Wave?Ĭassie’s afraid she might be the last human on the planet. – Vosch – the base commander (and bad guy) – Ringer – a shrewd soldier and expert markswoman who helps Zombie lead his squad – Ben Parish – Cassie’s high school crush (who goes by Zombie when he becomes a soldier) – Evan Walker – the mysterious guy who nurses Cassie back to health after a gunshot wound

– Sammy Sullivan – Cassie’s five year old brother (who goes by Nugget when he becomes a soldier) – Cassie Sullivan – the main character who has lost both parents in the alien attacks and is now searching for her little brother Humans refer to them as Silencers.)ĥth wave – kids taken away from their families and trained as soldiers (They are trained to kill anyone who lights up green, which they think are infested humans but actually are the opposite.) The five strange waves of the attack are as follows:ġst wave – a massive electromagnetic pulse (It happened 10 days after satellites captured the first images of the alien mothership nearing Earth.)Ģnd wave – an earthquake, which caused an enormous tsunami (It took out 40% of the Earth’s population, those who lived within 60 miles of a coastline.)ģrd wave – an awful Ebola-like virus made airborne and spread through bird feces (It wiped out 97% of the people who contracted it.)Ĥth wave – intruders planted long ago in human babies (They awakened when the hosts became teenagers, and these infested humans begin to quietly kill any surviving humans. This series is set in the modern world, and earth is under attack from aliens in a mothership hovering above earth. The book is written in first person from several different points of view-predominantly Cassie’s, Evan’s, and Ben’s.

Amidst all of this is Cassie, who is trying to find her five year old brother. The remaining humans trust no one they encounter. They struggle to form alliances and figure out the aliens’ motives and next move. Earth has sustained strange alien attacks in five different waves.

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