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The 5th Wave

By: Rick Yancey
Narrated by: Phoebe Strole, Brandon Espinoza
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The downloadable, digital audiobook edition of Rick Yancey’s gripping epic, read by the actors Phoebe Strole and Brandon Espinoza.

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: Trust no one. Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave.

On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, until Cassie meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be her only hope for rescuing her brother and even saving herself. Now she must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up. Cassie Sullivan gets up.

©2013 Rick Yancey (P)2013 Penguin Audio Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Fiction Survival
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The storyline is really good and very promising but the audio presenters were average at best.
I also struggled with the first person, present tense writing. Just doesn’t work for me. Not enough narrator detail for events. Overall, it could have been a lot better.

Disappointed. Very average reading.

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I love YA genre but this book feels a little young. I love the story idea but I found myself bored in a lot of the chapters. I didn't find myself excited to listen to it like I usually am with my favourites. Finishing it feels like a chore

Good story idea but boring

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It was a captivating Story but the narration was haphazard in many places. There was no clear distinction between characters thoughts vs their actual speech, so you're often left wondering if they said things out loud to other characters or they were just thinking it. I agree with the other reviews in that there was a lot of unnecessary repetition but that's more q problem with the actual prose of the novel. Otherwise , an interesting story.

Captivating Story let down by narration

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I really didn't think i would enjoy this book but I purchased it as it kept coming up in my recommended sections. I absolutely feel in love with it and was always wanting more.

great book!!

100% loved this book!!!

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i can only ever enjoy movies from books if i watch the movie first, then the book. this was no exception. watch the movie, then listen to this.

the voices are pretty amazing in this audio. there is so much emphasis.

5th wave

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I listened to this book as it was set by my book club. I loved that the book was read by two people - female roles read by Pheobe and male roles read by Brandon. It enabled me to stay in story and feel more of the emotion as it felt more real in the correct voice. I watched the movie a couple of years ago and wasn't sure if I'd like the book so I always put it off. I liked it a hell of a lot more than I thought I would. It's a very similar storyline to the usual 'alien invasion' stories but with twists and turns you don't really see coming. As soon as I finished I bought the next one I needed to continue the story!

I liked it more than I thought...

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Would you consider the audio edition of The 5th Wave to be better than the print version?

I don't know, because I can't read for long stretches any more, especially novels.

Who was your favorite character and why?

I wasn't expecting there to be so many main characters regardless of the fact that the Book is supposed to revolve around Cassie. I loved all the main characters for different reasons. To me the story revolved around these four and they were all equally as important as each other to my great surprise.

What does Phoebe Strole and Brandon Espinoza bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

They both read very well, but they or the production team needed to work on the voices of individual characters to break them up more and make them WAY more distinguishable, on occasion because if you're not paying attention, you can get confused as to which character is speaking, especially during a chapter change, but it's not only chapter changes you have to watch out for. This unfortunately was a huge flaw for me after just being spoiled with the incredible job one person did with the maze runner trilogy characters. You didn't even have to think twice as to who was saying what with James Deakins reading. That's just constructive, they still didn't excellent job.

Any additional comments?

An excellent well written book if you like this kind of genre like I do, but at times there was too much overlap and repetition which was very unnecessary constant backfilling. It didn't detract from the Book it was just something I personally found annoying at times which I know that other readers don't have a problem with. These are minor picky flaws but that's why I gave this story four stars but overall five, the concept was a clear winner for me.

Excellent, I thoroughly enjoyed it

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The Fifth Wave delivers a well written and intelligent tale of the end of the World. I continue to be amazed at the fresh and entertaining books coming out in this well trodden Genre of late.

I have to admit I had mixed feeling when I started reading this book as I though I had stumbled across a booked aimed at the Teen and Tween market. Thoughts of this was quickly pushed aside as the author delivered a well thought out and intelligent narrative. Sure the main characters of the book are teenagers but their is nothing PG about this book.

What I really like about this book was the "wave" concept that is used to spell the end of humanity. This concept was fresh and frightengly did not take to much stretching of the imagination to believe. Looks like the is another series I am going to have to read to the end.

Highly Entertainging Listen

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Looking forward to the next book in series, really enjoyed storyline and the light humor

Really enjoyed this book

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I couldn't stop listening. The dialogue was brilliant. What happened to Evan? Was he sacrificed?

Great story

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