When she leaves the protection of the forest she is wounded, then aided by Evan Walker, a mysterious young man who lives in seclusion himself and claims to be fighting the Others. The mantra she carries is to trust no one since the extraterrestrials live openly in plain sight among the humans.įor a time Cassie hides alone in the woods, isolated and cognizant of her vulnerability.
They promise his safety, but Cassie believes otherwise and armed with a M-16 rifle plans to rescue Sam. One survivor, 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan, loses her parents - her mother to the plague and father by a so-called protector - then watches her little brother, Sam, being snatched away on a yellow school bus by the Others. Those remaining await the next wave, the fifthīut these were not sudden attacks. In all, the waves “hit a 97 percent kill rate.” During the fourth wave, the “infected,” humans whose brains became hosts to aliens’ consciousness at birth, hunt and destroy anyone who survived the previous waves.
The third wave, “The Red Death,” is a highly contagious avian plague. The first wave is an electromagnetic storm that leaves the Earth in darkness, followed next by a geological fault line releasing a tsunami destroying the world’s coastlines. This gripping apocalyptic tale, the first of a trilogy, begins as aliens called Others hover, then obliterate most of the Earth’s population in waves. " THE 5TH WAVE ," by Rick Yancey, Putnam, $18.99, 457 pages (f) (ages 14 and up)
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