The introduction is a real eye-opener, with humans being far, few, and non-collaborative. We meet a group that is unnamed but their fate comes to a halt when a boy that appears lost runs up to their house. He ends up killing them and demolishing their house. I was in shock. Like. Oh my god. What just happened. I have no clue who they are and where I'm at (Page 20! haha) they still haven't been mentioned again. This quote can truly show what this intro was like, "She could not see the wire or the tiny capsule connected to the wire's end. She could not know, as she bent over the child to peer into his mouth, that device inside the child was calibrated to detect the carbon dioxide in her breath. Our Breath the Trigger. Our child the weapon. The explosion vaporized the old farmhouse instantly," (Yancey, no page number given). Those first few pages created an explosion in my mind as I was trying to comprehend what just happened.
After that, the book has an interesting format because it switches point of view to a new character each chapter. It doesn't tell you and I know Rick has a reason for that, but that I have yet to discover. I was so perplexed, I had to google it just to find out what was going on. Other than that, it's a great book and I'll read it for an infinity amount of years. Nope I'll finish it soon.
I had an incredible year blogging and hopefully I get to do it next year!
Here is an Interview with Rick Yancey right after he released his first book
The 5th wave
