The Last Star: The Final Book of The 5th Wave
The highly-anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling 5th Wave series.
The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us.
But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves.
In these last days, Earth’s remaining survivors will need to decide what’s more important: saving themselves . . . or saving what makes us human.
Praise for The 5th Wave
Now a major motion picture starring Chloë Grace Moretz
"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."—Entertainment Weekly
"A modern sci-fi masterpiece . . ."—USAToday.com
"Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."—Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review
Books in the series:
The 5th Wave (The First Book of The 5th Wave)
The Infinite Sea (The Second Book of The 5th Wave)
The Last Star (The Third Book of the The 5th Wave)
The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us.
But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves.
In these last days, Earth’s remaining survivors will need to decide what’s more important: saving themselves . . . or saving what makes us human.
Praise for The 5th Wave
Now a major motion picture starring Chloë Grace Moretz
"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."—Entertainment Weekly
"A modern sci-fi masterpiece . . ."—USAToday.com
"Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."—Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review
Books in the series:
The 5th Wave (The First Book of The 5th Wave)
The Infinite Sea (The Second Book of The 5th Wave)
The Last Star (The Third Book of the The 5th Wave)
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Community Reviews
Subtitle: The final installment in which confusion reigns, trust is a suggestion, and metaphors are weaponized.
Okay, so here we are. Book three. The epic conclusion. The “what even is happening anymore” finale. Remember all those burning questions from the first two books? Yeah, you might want to get used to the warm glow of unanswered mysteries, because The Last Star is less “satisfying resolution” and more “existential shrug with a side of betrayal.”
The good: Cassie still kicks butt and takes names, all while spiraling into a full-blown identity crisis. Ringer? Still my girl. Emotionally distant, genetically enhanced, and about three IQ points from overthrowing NASA. The action? Oh, it’s there. Explosions, death, drama, cryptic alien nonsense—it’s a full buffet.
The not-so-good:Plot? Structure? Logic? Unclear. Honestly, I think the aliens are confused, too. Characters switch sides, die, come back, maybe die again? There’s a twist every other chapter and not all of them make sense. Or any. Existential questions are cool and all, but when your book feels like it’s monologuing about humanity mid-apocalypse, you start to miss the simpler days of just shooting the aliens.
And don’t even get me started on the ending. Without spoilers: it was trying really hard to be deep and poetic and soul-crushing… and it kind of was, but mostly because I couldn’t figure out what just happened.
Would I recommend it? Sure—if you’ve read the first two and want closure. Or, you know, whatever the alien-invasion version of closure is.
Will you understand everything by the end? LOL. No.
Will you feel things? Probably. Confusion is a feeling, right?
Okay, so here we are. Book three. The epic conclusion. The “what even is happening anymore” finale. Remember all those burning questions from the first two books? Yeah, you might want to get used to the warm glow of unanswered mysteries, because The Last Star is less “satisfying resolution” and more “existential shrug with a side of betrayal.”
The good: Cassie still kicks butt and takes names, all while spiraling into a full-blown identity crisis. Ringer? Still my girl. Emotionally distant, genetically enhanced, and about three IQ points from overthrowing NASA. The action? Oh, it’s there. Explosions, death, drama, cryptic alien nonsense—it’s a full buffet.
The not-so-good:Plot? Structure? Logic? Unclear. Honestly, I think the aliens are confused, too. Characters switch sides, die, come back, maybe die again? There’s a twist every other chapter and not all of them make sense. Or any. Existential questions are cool and all, but when your book feels like it’s monologuing about humanity mid-apocalypse, you start to miss the simpler days of just shooting the aliens.
And don’t even get me started on the ending. Without spoilers: it was trying really hard to be deep and poetic and soul-crushing… and it kind of was, but mostly because I couldn’t figure out what just happened.
Would I recommend it? Sure—if you’ve read the first two and want closure. Or, you know, whatever the alien-invasion version of closure is.
Will you understand everything by the end? LOL. No.
Will you feel things? Probably. Confusion is a feeling, right?
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