There are a lot of young adult novels about love triangles and utopias, but there haven’t been many that made an alien invaded America work. What I liked about this book was the alien theme and how Yancey took real social problems in our society and had the aliens exploit them. We meet him while he is stalking Cassie and trying to kill her, but he falls in love with her and disregards his orders.

Evan gives us inside information on the aliens. Through Ben we see what it is like inside of the military camp, and through Cassie we see what it is like to survive in this alien-invaded America. Ben also happens to be Cassie’s high school crush, so we get some of the notorious young adult novel love interest aspect. He is brought back to health and trained as a child solider. We meet him in a hospital in Camp Heaven. We follow Cassie as she tries to fulfill her promise to her little brother to save him from the military camp.īen was sick from the plague that the Others spread to cleanse humanity of weak people. Cassie’s father and the other adults were killed by the same people who she entrusted with her brother. The 5th Wave follows 16-year-old, Cassie Sullivan and 17-year-old Ben Parish during modern day America that has been taken over by an alien race known as “the Others.” There are three narrative point of views in this book: Cassie, Ben and an Other named Evan.Ĭassie and her brother Sammy were separated when the military came to Camp Ashpit and took all of the children under 14 to Camp Heaven.

Evan from the 5th wave