The Infinite Sea Review

 

 

 

This is the 2nd installment in The 5th Wave trilogy in which we continue following our group of survivors. This was not a strong follow up to the first book. The beginning was a little jarring to me because in The 5th Wave we mostly read through Cassie's perspective and this book starts from Ringer's perspective, but it takes you a while to figure that out. You are left wondering why Cassie sounds so off for many pages before it's revealed who's POV you're reading. We start off with Ringer, then jump to Cassie and the exact same conversation from her POV, but the conversation is different in her version of it, which was a bit odd. Then we get a brief bit from Poundcake's POV before the entire second half of the book switches back to Ringer. In my opinion there was not nearly enough Cassie or Evan in this book. They were the best parts to read in the first book, but those scenes were few and far between in this one. We did get some insight through Ringer and even a love connection with a new character named Razor, who was a nice balance to Ringer's flat personality. Overall, it was a very short follow up where not a lot happens. It covers a very short time span and lacked the excitement and spunk of the first book. I also found the story line to be very confusing. With the first book we understood there were aliens invading and they were methodical in what they were doing, however by the end of this book I wasn't even sure if there was an invasion at all or if it was the government or if there were other possibilities. The writing of this one was a bit all over the place for me and wasn't laid out very well. It got a bit repetitive at times as though scenes were repeated from multiple POV's just to stretch the length and not to add anything to the plot. Overall, I gave this 3 stars, but it may really be more of a 2.5. I'm giving it a little extra love since I enjoyed The 5th Wave so much. I am still invested in the series though and can't wait to get my hands on the third book. Hopefully it can regain some of the luster it once had.