The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

“The First rule of surviving the 4^th wave is don’t trust anyone anymore. It doesn’t matter what they look like. The Others are very smart about everything. In the 4^th Wave, you can’t trust that people are still people. But you can trust that your gun is still your gun.”

In Cassie’s world she has only her father and her younger brother Sammy left alive. Her mother has passed away due to what has been known as the Red plague. Each successive wave of the alien invasion of earth has brought mass death. The 3^rd Wave took 3.5 billion people. The Others are truly ingenious in their design to inhabit the Earth.

When Cassie’s father and Sammy are separated, she must fend for herself. If she is lucky to find “humans alive, can she trust that they are human- even though they look like they are?

This is a fast paced book- not for the faint of heart. I would only recommend this book to mature, advanced readers. Warning- it may give you nightmares!