The Infinite Sea ~ Rick Yancey

How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race.

Cassie and her friends haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate.

Book Review:

I don't think that this installment was as good as The 5th Wave but I have hopes for the last book. I just found that this one was a bit bland.There was no real character development or any building of relationships between characters. The only thing that I found interesting was Nugget's reactions to every situation. For a kid who is so young, I feel that the anger was properly faced and it kind of made me laugh, just picturing it. 

I wanted more between Cassie and Evan. After he came back, all I wanted was for them to have a nice heart to heart conversation. I wanted Evan to explain his side of things and for Cassie to try to understand because there are feelings there. And if that wasn't going to happen, I wanted Cassie to grow closer with Ben. I wanted her to pull the old Ben out of his current Zombie. I wanted him to open up to her, either way, about what happened with his family, namely his sister. 

I also really wanted to learn more about the other characters in this installment, but we don't learn much of anything about any of them. Except Ringer. We do learn a bit more about Ringer which I really did enjoy. I find the mystery of her to be very compelling. I want to know more about her.

Pages: 320                                                                                                                         Rate: 3/5

Book Discussion: SPOILERS:

This whole story about Grace, who is like Evan, irritates me. I don't understand what her importance is to the story. I hate that she blew up the house, with Evan in it, before there was ever any sort of resolution between he and Cassie, or he and any of the other characters really. I also really hated the part with the bomb shoved down the little girl's throat. I understand that Yancey is trying to make a point of how ruthless the Others are, but I just found it to be a bit unnecessary, just as I found that part about Ringer's captivity (most of the book) to be unnecessary. None of it was interesting, other than the code that she was using which I am very much so interested in. 

Favorite Quote:

“And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and hunger, and the old Ben Parish rose from the dead. The eyes that impaled. The smile that slayed. In another moment, he would fade, slide back into the new Ben, the one called Zombie, and I understood something I hadn’t before: He was dead, the object of my schoolgirl desires, just as the schoolgirl who desired him was dead.”