I ended up leaving the book with more questions than I went into it with. It was slightly frustrating overall- the main group was in the same place for most of the book, just talking about LEAVING this place. The POV switched several times, and it felt very clunky and disorienting. "The 5th Wave" was very interesting and engaging, but this followup just left me confused with the plot and the big questions.
I'm probably going to pick up the third and final novel when it releases in paperback, but it's going to have to be pretty dang good for me to say that I actually like the series. ( )

It's fine. Typical book two of a trilogy....lots of set up with no resolution. Now I am going to have to read book 3 ( )

I did enjoy this book, however, not quite as much as I did The 5th Wave. It took me a little while to get into, there didn't seem to be much going on in the beginning but it picked up later on. I liked learning about the other characters past history, especially Poundcake's, but I also wanted more from Cassie's POV. The ending, I still don't know what to say about it. It was good but the reveal total caught me off guard and I'm a little confused now what exactly this means for our main characters. I definitely want to continue with the final book and see what happens now. Overall I give it a 3.5 stars. ( )

I was trying to figure out what age these books are aimed at, because part of me thinks maybe they're aimed at a younger audience and I'm juding them too harshly, but ... they're pretty brutal, the main characters are young adults and there's even sex in this one, so I'm guessing they are probably YA lit after all. It doesn't really read that way.

I'm torn between 1 and 2 stars, because the first book was better, in a way, but it's not AS bad as some books I've one starred. This rating system is tricky.

Nothing happens in this book. I had hopes for it, I liked that we immediately got Ringer's POV (I like her sooo much better than Cassie), and I thought we were going for some REALLY interesting unreliable narrator thing with Cassie ... but no. The unreliable narrator thing just seemed like weird way for the author to write the same scene twice. Honestly, did you he write this during NaNoWriMo? NOTHING HAPPENS, but there are so many words. The first 200 pages is fucking 90% Cassie going over the same things in her head OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I get it, you're torn, your feelings for Evan are complicated, blah blah. I skimmed most of her thoughts after a while.

The timeline is also all over the place. The first 200 pages takes place during a few days, the last 100 during a few weeks, but they are PARALLELL stories, so we have no idea what happens to the other characters during those weeks. I assume that'll be for book three? Either way it makes it seem like the two parts are barely connected.

Especially since, at the end of the story, the characters are basically back to where they at the end of the last book. The only person who goes through even a bit of change is Ringer, but even her story was way longer and more complicated than it had to be. The aliens claim to have some big master plan, but I don't see what it is, and there's gonna have to be one hell of an explanation at the end of book three for me to buy any of this.

Plus it keeps switching between first and third person. Even weirder than that, Cassie's POV is suddenly entirely in past tense, but Ringer's is in present. In the last book, I think everything was written in present tense, so why this change? Is the author experiementing with different POVs and tenses? I don't understand, I really don't.

Will I read the third book? Maybe. If I haven't forgotten about this entire thing by the time it comes out. ( )

Loved it. Can't wait for the third book! ( )