The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

okay so josh let me borrow this book and i wasnt going to read it at first but then i was like why not so i did and now it is 8:40 on a saturday night and i have just finished this book and i have decided to blog about it.
what does that say about me
that speaks volumes
it is a saturday night on a 6 day weekend
i need a life
but anyway you probably dont want to hear about my life (or lack of one) so yeah

Summary:

so basically what happened is there are these aliens, and they are invading earth and  they invaded in waves so the first wave was that all the electronics broke, the second was an earthquake/tidal wave, the third was a disease carried by birds that basically killed you and made blood come out of your eyes and nose, and the fourth was that the aliens could inhabit peoples bodies. so all these have happened and cassie is alone and being stalked by an alien in a persons body. her brother is being held captive by these people, and with him is benjamin parish, the boy that cassie kind of sort of had a thing for before.. you know... the alien apocalypse. so she ends up falling in love with the alien in the persons body who happens to be stalking her and she is simultaneously still having her kind of sort of thing for benjamin parish who did not even know she existed and in fact did not recognize her when she succeeded in rescuing sammy (her brother) from the aliens. but while cassie was making out with evan and looking for sammy, ben a) became very close to her brother and b) became very close to another girl named Ringer and im not exacly sure who ends up with whom. and this summary is pretty short and it leaves out a lot of stuff but its basically the story

My Overall Opinion:

6/10 it was pretty good but it was basically a combination of enders game and the host. it was pretty well written and the story was interesting ish but most of the time i couldnt even tell where it was going. i didnt like that in the beginning she basically let a man die because he wasnt ben parish and then later when she meets up with ben theyre running away from some aliens and he offers her his hand and she goes im not sure if i would have taken it if it was anyone elses. like nO THIS IS AN ALIEN APOCALYPSE THIS IS NOT THE TIME OR PLACE TO BE THINKING ABOUT THIS KIND OF SORT OF THING YOU HAD FOR THIS BOY WHO DIDNT EVEN KNOW YOU EXISTED.  pretty much cassies never ending obsession with ben parish bothered me the whole time and just in general she was so irritating. i liked ringer a lot because of this scene (when she was first introduced): 

When i look up again, she's heading for the showers with a towel thrown over her shoulder. She pauses at the door. "if anybody in this squad touches me, ill kill them."

there's nothing menacing or funny about the way she says it. as if shes stating a fact, like its cold outside. 

"ill spread the word," i say 

"and when im in the shower, off limits. total privacy."

"roger that. anything else?"

i shake my head. holler at the boys, "any of you pervs play chess?"

"No," flint calls back, "but if shes in the mood for some strip poker-"

it happens before i can get two inches off the mattress; flint on the ground, holding his throat, kicking his legs like a stomped on bug, Ringer standing over him.

"also no demeaning, sexist, pseudo-macho remarks" 

LIKE YOU GO GIRL HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE HER SHES THE ONLY GIRL IN THE SQUAD AND SHES BETTER WITH A GUN THAN ALL THE BOYS COMBINED AND SHE KNOWS IT AND SHE IS NOT INTIMIDATED BY THEM AT ALL 

she reminded me a lot of alaska from looking for alaska by john green but more... you know... alien apocalypse - y 

yeah so thats basically it. and heres the cover: 

its pretty ish but it doesnt say anything about the book like it could be a modern rendition of red riding hood or it could be a romeo juliet story and you wouldnt be able to tell