She is described as the best shot in the group and is very quiet, yet scary. Marika/Ringer – a girl who joins Squad 53 after Tank, a former member, goes 'Dorothy' (slang for crazy) she is described as tall and skinny, with pale white skin and long, glossy, straight black hair, three-quarters Asian and a quarter Apache. Sammy manages to escape with Cassie and Zombie at the end of the novel. Nugget and Zombie become good friends, and Zombie acts like Sam's big brother. He is taken to Camp Haven to join Squad 53, after being renamed Nugget. He is taken away from the refugee camp where he, his father, and Cassie had stayed. Samuel Jackson Sullivan – Cassie's little brother who is five years old he is described as having messy brown hair and large, teddy bear eyes. Cassie said Sissy would be hoisted onto Ben's shoulders after his football games, and she would join him in a parade. He wears her locket around his neck in memory of her. In a moment stricken with fear, he left her behind. She was killed by intruders while escaping her house with Ben. He manages to escape with Cassie and Sammy. Zombie soon discovers the 'soldiers' are actually aliens in disguise. There, he becomes a part of Squad 53 and is renamed Zombie. After the 3rd Wave, Ben contracts the plague but is 'rescued' by soldiers who take him to Camp Haven. While in high school, Cassie had a crush on Ben, but he never noticed her. He has a brief love relationship with Cassie.īenjamin Thomas Parish/Zombie – a popular football player and honours student at Cassie's high school he is described as tall, buff, and dark-haired. His family and girlfriend were all killed during the 3rd Wave. She has a relationship with her 'silencer', Evan Walker.Įvan Walker – a boy from rural Ohio who lived with his large family he is described as having chocolate brown eyes and brown hair.

Before the waves hit, she had a crush on Ben Parish, a popular football player. The story follows 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan as she tries to survive in a world devastated by waves of alien invasions that decimated the Earth's population.Ĭritics have compared the book favorably to The Hunger Games and The Road, and noted that it 'should do for aliens what Twilight did for vampires.' Sony Pictures released a film adaptation in January 2016.Ĭassiopeia Marie Sullivan or 'Cassie' – the novel's protagonist, is 16 years old, short, and has curly strawberry-blonde hair. The novel is the first in the 5th Wave trilogy, followed by The Infinite Sea and The Last Star. The 5th Wave is a young adult science fiction novel written by American author Rick Yancey. Print ( hardcover and paperback), e-book, audiobook

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