In this second installment of the 5th Wave series, The Infinite Sea, author Rick Yancy once again captivates readers into the apocalyptic world. Though be prepared this book will make you cry but it also make you glade you read it.
Like the first book, The Infinite Sea is taken from multiple perspectives. The first perspective is Ringer. I liked being able to get a better idea of who Ringer was in this book In the 5th Wave we don't really get a good idea of who she is or why she acts like she does. Ringers story defiantly made me think the most. As she's separated from the group she faces off by herself the dangers The Others have to bring.
Repeatedly she uses the metaphor, "We are the like the rats." She uses this in the perspective of The Others. How they are trying to exterminate the human race and start anew. Just as the rats destroyed the hotel, we as humans are like the rats. To the aliens we destroy our world. We knock down wildlife and fill it with pollution. We are destroying our home. The aliens plan to live here but can't bear to live in a destroyed world. Their solution is to get rid of the humans in order to create a more perfect race. Same as how when a place is invested with rats, we try to exterminate them. That is what the aliens are doing here.
Knowing this from their view point it’s easy to see how what they think what they’re doing isn't wrong. To them they are enhancing the human race by making humans like themselves. What they fail to see is they are destroying everything they loved about this planet.
One characteristic that was very annoying in this book was the amount of perspectives this book took from. I felt it seemed really choppy at times with many loose ends. Ringer's story is the only story I feel that actually got somewhere. The other characters perspectives never really accomplished much, and when they did we never really heard the outcome.
A few points in this book I would think a character died then to only get to the end to find them still living. It was hard to keep track of what characters actually died and which was where still alive. I feel this is due to the multi-perspective this book took on.
Over all I would give this book a 3/5 stars. Compared to the first book, which amazed me, I was very disappointed with The Infinite Sea. Though one good thing is that even though this book had a lot of loose ties, they will somehow come together in the final book. Many possibilities are open for how Rick Yancy is going to end this New York Times bestseller.
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