Just as Ben believes he is going to die, the camp is raided by soldiers. However, Cassie soon comes to suspect Evan is a Silencer, perhaps even the Silencer who shot her.īen Parish is living in a refugee camp when he becomes ill with the Ebola virus. Cassie is rescued by a young farm boy, Evan. Cassie becomes sick as the snows begin to fall and nearly dies. However, as Cassie makes her way to the military base, she is shot in the leg by an alien hosts she refers to as Silencers. Cassie promised her little brother Sammy that she would come for him at the military base where the soldiers took him after their father's death. Ironically, before the soldiers gunned down her father, she had believed that they would save her family.Ĭassie now lives alone in the woods. During the fourth wave, her father was killed by soldiers.

Cassie's mother died from the Ebola virus in the second wave. Cassie is a survivor of an alien invasion that has come in four waves. She thinks she might be the last human left on Earth. The fifth wave is just beginning as teenagers Cassie and Ben make their way separately through a world they no longer understand.Ĭassie is alone.

Then, in the fourth wave it is discovered that some humans are hosts to the alien forms. The third wave occurs when a modified Ebola virus wipes out more than seven billion people. In the second wave, a massive bar is dropped from space that causes total destruction on every coastline in the world.

During the first wave, an EMP destroys all electronics on earth. In the novel, aliens invade the earth, bringing death and destruction in five well defined waves. The 5th Wave, written by Rick Yancy, is a dystopic novel that takes the genre to a new level.

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey