It's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see (Goodreads).
The novel does fall into the ever popular trap that teen dystopian fiction so often does, that being a tiresome romance and self-absorbed protagonist, but luckily, Yancey digs himself and his novel out of this hole by using a shovel comprised of fantastic plot development and action packed sequences that manage to stay unique one after another. The pacing is well done, except for one character's plotline which seems to be stagnant for too long at one point. Particularly in the first act, the use of flashback is utilized so extremely well, that characters barely introduced are able to have an emotional foothold in the story. Dictated with a brutal eloquence, the antagonists are well executed and remain mysterious enough for the sequels to be desired, although this could be a fault in that the antagonists are not quite fleshed out as much as they should. Overall though, the brilliantly disturbing aliens become just one of the features that make Yancey's novel succeed. 8.5/10
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