The Infinite Sea is the hugely anticipated follow-up to the phenomenal - and bestselling - The 5th Wave by Carnegie-shortlisted Rick Yancey.

'Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances . . . JUST READ IT' Entertainment Weekly

THE 1st WAVE: Took out half a million people.

THE 2nd WAVE: Put that number to shame.

THE 3rd WAVE: Lasted a little longer. Twelve weeks . . . Four billion dead.

IN THE 4th WAVE: You can't trust that people are still people.

AND THE 5th WAVE?

Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others' ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race.

Cassie and her friends haven't seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate.

Praise for The 5th Wave :

'WILDLY ENTERTAINING... I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review

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'The next HIT' Daily Mail

'Nothing short of AMAZING' Kirkus (starred review)

' CHILLING' Sun

'The pace is RELENTLESS' Heat

'A modern sci-fi MASTERPIECE...' USA Today

'ACTION-PACKED' MTV.com

' This book's SCARY!' Teen Now (5 starred review)

'This is DAMN and WOW territory . Quite simply, one of the best books I've read in years.' Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author.

'...a twisty survival story that borrows elements from romance, horror and dystopian fiction' Wall Street Journal

'Breathtakingly fast-paced and original, The 5th Wave is a reading tsunami that grabs hold and won't let go.' Melissa De La Cruz, New York Times bestselling author of the Blue Bloods series.

'An epic sci-fi adventure about a terrifying alien invasion. You'll read it in one sitting' Bookseller

'Heartfelt, violent, paranoid epic, filled with big heroics and bigger surprises . . . a sure thing for reviewers and readers alike.' Booklist (starred review)

'A gripping SF trilogy about an Earth decimated by an alien invasion... the question of what it means to be human is at the forefront' Publishers Weekly

About the author: Rick Yancey is the author of several adult novels and the memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector. His first young-adult novel, The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp , was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. In 2010, his novel, The Monstrumologist , received Michael L. Printz Honor, and the sequel, The Curse of the Wendigo , was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. **

From School Library Journal

Gr 9 Up—The majority of the first-person narration in this second book in "The 5th Wave" series (Putnam) shifts between Ringer, a beautiful teen with deadly aim, and tough-but-tender Cassie, who thought she was the lone surviving human. A third-person viewpoint is used for Evan, an alien who has shifted his allegiance in the face of true love and Ben (Zombie), badly injured but still in command of the ragtag paramilitary group of creatively nicknamed children and teens. The action springs back and forth in place and time as readers learn why Poundcake no longer speaks, how Evan is related to super-strong Grace, and why chess is important to Ringer. The "infinite sea" can be made of snow, of tears, of the floaty feeling of semi-consciousness, and, more than once, it is a sea of blood. Yancey keeps the pressure on, as Cassie and Ben seek to protect the younger humans and outsmart the devious Silencers. Ringer struggles to maintain her humanity in the face of nanotechnology and Evan struggles with turning his back on what his species has been working toward for thousands of years. Yancey's writing can be melodramatic ("The world will be consumed by the crushing dark"; "The Others didn't invent death; they just perfected it"), but will keep action-craving readers enthralled. With a 5th Wave movie in the works, and alien questions left unanswered, expect readers to be interested in this series for the foreseeable future.—Maggie Knapp, Trinity Valley School, Fort Worth, TX

Review

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*

“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

“This gut-wrenching sequel to The 5th Wave careens on a violent course of nonstop action.”— Publishers Weekly* , starred review

“A breathless, grueling survival story . . . . Yancey's prose remains unimpeachable—every paragraph is laden with setting, theme, and emotion."— Booklist* , starred review

“A roller-coaster ride of a sequel.”— Kirkus Reviews

“It doesn’t just move the story forward, but even opens up new possibilities in the previous book.” —Geekdad.com **