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I'm honestly wondering how anyone who is a true fan of this series gave this book a 5 star rating. I wrestled between a 1 and a 3, finally landing on the 2 for the following reasons: (Spoilers ahead...) Cassie has always been the main character despite the changing POV. I really think Yancey did a wonderful job with her character growth through the series and her ending. It was heartbreaking, but beautiful. I'm still upset she didn't realize Evan Walker's true love until it was too late to celebrate it fully with him, but I can tell Yancey wanted a more "real-life" ending for all of his characters instead of fairy tale love stories (which I think is a great idea). Also, the religious references and the complete loss of faith in the end of the world was realistically well-done.
With all of that said, why did I hate this book? The first 2 books (which became 2 of my favorite YA novels ever) built all fans up in a way that we were aching for the explanation of the invasion. Well...in this book we find out all the aliens are actually dead and technology is controlling the whole thing, but how? We still don't know how Vosch knows all that he knows and how he came to be. We don't know why the Others decided to kill the human race and what they planned to do with Earth after. And there was a point where Vosch was saying there were only a limited amount of escape pods and when Evan Walker asks why, Vosch says he will explain...but doesn't. At all. It's a total mess that left me with more questions than the speculations of the invasion I had from the first 2 books! I have to add: in the second book it was hinted that the 5 waves might not be from aliens, but from human government instead. It was never said outright, but it could have been a possibility.Read more ›
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The worst ending ever! This book was all over the place and ruined the entire series. By the end of the book, I was hoping I would wakeup from this nightmare of a story and realize it was all a bad dream! No such luck. Evan and Cassie were all but forgotten, to tell Ringers and everyones POV. The author seemed to be rushing this book and added random words to fill the empty space. And what was with all of the God bashing? I won't read another book written by Mr. Yancey
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I was tempted to give this book one star, but it did have some redeeming action adventure. However, for the most part, this book was poorly written and disappointing. **WARNING: Some spoilers ahead** It seemed as though Mr. Yancey decided that either a) he had no clue where to go with the series, or b) decided he wanted to go all philosophical and make it all about what is humanity and does love make us broken, blah blah blah instead of giving us the alien ass kicking we were hoping for. The first two books made it feel like this third one was going to give you a victory over the aliens, a resolution and a new beginning for Earth, but no. Instead, it left me feeling like an annoying fly had been swatted out of the way, but the issues remained. Even the resolutions were flimsy at best. Every explanation seemed so loose and weak, that numerous alternatives could be found and would have made it that much more interesting. The main characters that we fell in love with in the first book seemed to be filtered out to make way for Ringer, who the author clearly decided was his baby and needed to take over the spotlight. Cassie and Evan were mostly forgotten in this book until the end when I feel Mr. Yancey finally thought, oh, hey, those two, I completely forgot! Cassie went from the whiny, over frustrating brat with no real purpose but filler, to this superhuman to save the world that she didn't actually save, she just helped put a piece of the puzzle to rest, and left everyone else behind to deal with the rest. Evan, I think, would have been better off left dead instead of being brought back for what, I am still trying to figure out. Personally, I would have loved it so much better had Evan actually been what he said he was in the beginning!Read more ›
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After reading this book I have no idea why Yancey even wrote this series. I have even less of an idea as to why I read it. The 5th Wave was okay. The Infinite Sea breathed life into a series crippled by its own overworked plot. But The Last Star obliterated any and all reason to suggest reading this series to anyone you feel a modicum of warmth towards. Spoilers to follow-- but are they really spoilers if the book isn't worth the paper it was printed on?
I knew from the first page I was going to hate this book. The first page. Maybe even the first line. Yancey knows what he's doing with the English language. Homie has serious writing skills. Unfortunately, he knows it and sometimes he likes to just run you into the ground with it. And unfortunately, those skills didn't come with an ability to facilitate a plot so we just meander through a wasteland of terrible plot and deteriorating characters for 300+ pages.
I won't get into the mess that was the plot because I can't even bring myself to care about how that house of cards collapsed in on itself. Seriously. House of cards in hurricane level winds with a writer who just threw his hands into the air and said, "Well, look at those prose! Look at how well I spin metaphor. Humanity. Humanity. Look, more philosophy about humanity being spewed by jaded teenagers."
The characters, though. That's where this story lost it all.
Zombie was the only character I could stand throughout this book. I love Zombie and even if the Ringer storyline is unforgivable, Ben Parish was still endearing enough to not turn this book into kindling before I finished it.
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