THE FIFTH WAVE was, hands-down, my most anticipated book of the year. When I saw the book trailers I knew I had to have this. Needless to say, I was incredibly disappointed, and I know I am in the minority. *Dodges tomatoes* Here's why I gave up around page 154: 
 You know the expression "it was more entertaining watching paint dry"? Well I didn't have paint to watch dry, but I sure wish I did. Instead, I spent three hours at the car dealership waiting, and I still didn't pick this up. Yes, I picked staring at a blank wall over THE FIFTH WAVE. It was just that boring to me. 
 There's a girl named Cassie, Cassie for Cassiopeia-remember that-it will only be mentioned like 1000 more times. Oh, you'll also get a backstory explaining why she has that name, why she has that nickname, and all about the constellation Cassiopeia. In addition to this completely irrelevant, useless information, you will also get various other backstories and histories in the form of flashbacks that are done in the way you almost don't know what is a memory and what isn't. 
 Heck, let's just say the first one hundred pages are about 98.5% in the past tense. Not to mention, once we switch POVs (which is also done in a way you can't tell and in the POV of the weirdest characters [seriously just stay with Cassie's next time]) you also get to hear their backstories. 
 And you know what made all those pages of flashbacks go from mildly frustrating to absolutely intolerable? Almost no dialogue. Because everyone loves to read books that look like a dissertation. 
 In addition to all of this, THE FIFTH WAVE also is completely predictable and cliche. Oh, yes. There are many tropes and such hiding behind all those clunky paragraphs. The major point of predictability here (and the major source of my anger for this novel) was: (view spoiler)[The Silencer, yet another POV we are privy to, is Evan Walker, the love interest. He is an alien hiding in a human body (hide spoiler)] 
 What a twist. I didn't see that coming, at all. In fact, in took me all of TWO pages into the Silencer's POV to figure out who he was!! What is this-THE HOST? It's basically the definition of forbidden love. Not to mention the Silencer's extremely awkward obsession with a girl who he is supposed to kill. It didn't even seem romantic, it's actually kind of creepy. 
 Speaking of Cassie, for Cassiopeia-don't forget-her character seemed way out of the norm. Now, I'm all for an author writing a novel in the POV of their opposite gender. But I shouldn't be able to tell that the author is trying to write in the POV of a girl. Because Cassie for Cassiopeia-I hope you didn't forget-didn't come off as strong and competent, but she just came off a little brutish.. 
 And some prize quotes:"He's looked better." 
 "Like most things." 
 "I assume he's talking about the world in general, not my body."AHHHHHH. 
 One last final comment, authors-teenagers do not think in acronym curse words. 
 Yancey, give us an example: "God, like WTF?"Okay, I'm done. 
 Some of my favorite reviewers sing their praises for this book to the heavens, so I respect the fans of this book and your opinion, just as I expect you to respect mine.