The Last Star - The 5th Wave: Book 3

Zusatztext ?  Loss and sacrifice intertwine with the underlying questions of morality! family! and human strength! and the resolutions of two apocalyptically doomed romances are appropriately understated! but no less electrifying. . . . [T]his blistering finale proves the truth of the first two volumes: it was never about the aliens." —Booklist ! starred review "[The Last Star] again unspools from multiple perspectives! keeping readers as off-balance as the characters! who must adjust to a world where they can trust no one. . . . After hundreds of pages of violent! nonstop action! the ending provides both satisfaction and heartbreak." —Publishers Weekly Praise for The 5th Wave An Amazon Best Book of the Year A New York Times bestseller A  USA Today  bestseller   “Just read it.”— Entertainment Weekly   “A modern sci-fi masterpiece.”— USA Today   “Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”—Justin Cronin! The New York Times Book Review    “Nothing short of amazing.”— Kirkus Reviews  (starred review)   “Gripping!”— Publishers Weekly  (starred review)   “Everyone I trust is telling me to read this book.”— The Atlantic Wire     Praise for The Infinite Sea  A New York Times bestseller A  USA Today  bestseller   “Heart-pounding pacing! lyrical prose and mind-bending twists . . .”— The New York Times Book Review “Impressively improves on the excellent beginning of the trilogy.”— USA Today “An epic sci-fi novel with all the romance! action! and suspense you could ever want.”—Seventeen.com From the Hardcover edition. Informationen zum Autor Rick Yancey is the author of  the New York Times bestsellers  The 5th Wave and The Infinite Sea! the first two books in this series. His debut young-adult novel! The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp! was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. In 2010! his novel The Monstrumologist received the Michael L. Printz Honor! and the sequel! The Curse of the Wendigo! was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. When he isn’t writing or thinking about writing or traveling the country talking about writing! Rick is hanging out with his family. From the Hardcover edition. Klappentext Just months after the major motion picture release of The 5th Wave comes the hugely anticipated series finale. Zusammenfassung 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 Last Star “ Yancey’s prose remains achingly precise! and this grows heavier! tighter! and more impossible to put down as the clock runs out…this blistering finale proves the truth of the first two volumes: it was never about the aliens.”— Booklist! starred review   “A haunting! unforgettable finale.”— Kirkus Reviews   “Yancey doesn’t hit the breaks for one moment! and the action is intense! but the language always stays lyrical and lovely. It’s a satisfying end to an impressive trilogy! true to the characters and the world Yancey cre...

Product details

• Authors: Rick Yancey
• Publisher: Puffin USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 14
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2016
• EAN: 9781101996201
• ISBN: 978-1-101-99620-1
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Putnam; New York Times Bestseller; The 5th Wave; Die 5. Welle; Die 5. Welle / The 5th Wave; The 5th Wave; New York Times Bestseller; Die 5. Welle / The 5th Wave
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age