The 5th Wave

I'm sure most of us have seen the movie the 5th Wave, or atleast of heard of it. It is a movie based on a book that drastically differs from the events. Whitch do I like better? It's hard to say with the two different intracut styles. The movie focuses on Cassie only, and the book has more to it than that.

In this book the writing switches between a girl named Cassie and a guy named Ben. It switches between there points of views. I dislike this, due to personal opinion, though if you love reading the first person this is the book for you. The book accurately capture the personalities in the writing of the first persons and is very believable that they are actually the ones telling the story. My favorite writing was Cassie's. To me she was the most relatable character in the book. Ben on the other hand wasn't as relatable. His connections with the people around him are very brief. I wish the story dived more upon this. Along with this I feel like they only brushed upon the activities that they did daily in the camp.

The plot of the story is the best part of the story. The idea in general, aliens taking over, isn't the most creative but the way they did take over is. Most people would imagine that aliens would go into complete war being a superior species. In this the species isn't superior, but their technology is. Along with the fact that also the aliens in this book are lazy in a way. Instead of fighting till all humans die they force the hope out of humans. They let the humans destroy themselves. I think this is the best part of the book.

Even though this part is pretty great the characters motives are very unoriginal and at times very boring. I wish the author gave more thought to the characters in the book almost. Along with this focus more on the little boy.  

In general, I think I would be neutral as if to recommend this book to a friend. It has some great parts yes, but it also has some parts that I am honestly not a fan of. I didn't hate the book but at the same time I didn't love it.