Book Review: The Infinite Sea

Title: The Infinite Sea

Author: Rick Yancey

Genre: YA Dystopian

Book Blurb: 

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.

Review:

Whew! So it felt as if I've been waiting forever to get my hands on this book!  Well....*drum roll please*...here's the review for the 2nd book to The 5th Wave.

Much like The 5th Wave, this book is told from many different POVs of different characters--and it's also a mixture of 1st person and 3rd person POV, which I find quite unique.  Plot wise, the structure was kind of weak--there really wasn't a clear beginning, middle nor end.  Before you dismiss this as a anti-climatic book, let me explain.

There's a lot of background info given on each character. Like, a lot. Also, there's a lot of characters--which yes, equals a lot of background stories.  But here's the catch--the background stories are very engaging, provide much deeper insight to each character and not at all boring--they're very well written to the point that it doesn't even feel like you're reading a 5 page background story about some character.

There's also a lot of descriptions and haunting imagery, which balances nicely with the whole end-of-the-world-constantly-on-the-run aspect of The Infinite Sea.  

***SPOILER ALERT***

Whoa! That ending--and Ringer/Marika (I don't even know what to call her at this point--Maringer?)--that was some intense stuff!  And the thing about Vosch hinting that all of this--the plagues, the waves, etc--is just some human created ploy??!  Mind=blown.  But I also feel a little...I dunno, cheated?  Hmm...I'm still not quite sure how I feel about the possibility that aliens don't exist (because obviously they do *rolls eyes*) and that the end of the world is caused by a few twisted humans.

***End of Spoiler Zone***

Before I wrap up this (sorta short) review, I just wanted to share 2 quick quotes with you:

"It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face."  

"Vincit qui patitur."  Okay--so this quote requires a little back story for one to fully appreciate it :-)  In case you don't know, I take Latin classes and just last week we started a new unit about deponent verbs.  I won't bore you with Latin-speak, lol, but long story short, "patitur" (found in quote above) is a deponent verb and I got to use my newly acquired knowledge to translate this little phrase.  I felt very accomplished afterwords, lol.  (Btw, the quote roughly translate to "He conquers who endures" or "he who endures conquers.")

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