The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey

This is the sequel to The 5th Wave. In this series, an alien society has decided to take over the earth. As this novel states repeatedly, they could have just hurled a rock at us, like the asteroid that took out most of life on the planet eons ago, and wiped us out like that. Instead, they kill us by killing our humanity. A plague takes out most people, turning them into delirious shells who don't recognize their own families. The survivors are forced to leave their loved ones in order to save themselves, a quality we generally lack. A few aliens have been "downloaded" into particular humans, only to be activated in their teens to who they really are. These few become killing machines, attempting to wipe out the real humans. So now, in a world where humans are becoming scarcer by the second, the human facing you could be the author of your demise. They kill our trust in the familiar, which is fed by our need for society. We want desperately to be around others but can you truly trust that other? It's a very philosophical novel, which doesn't always lead to a lot of ripping action scenes, but it has those as well. I'm kind of amazed the first novel came out just last year. It seems ages ago, and I really have trouble remembering what happened. I used to dread how, in the Harry Potter series, there was always a moment when the narrative would kind of pause while JK Rowling filled the reader in on what happened in the book before (or the book before that one). How many times do I have to be told how Harry got his scar or that he lived with his aunt and uncle because his parents were dead? Are the kids that series was designed for somehow lacking in long-term memory retention? However, I am then faced with this series which gives you NOTHING! Maybe I am lacking in long-term memory retention? It's a tooth-and-nail fight, but eventually the gist of the first book came back and I was able to enjoy this one. The next book comes out next year. I wonder if I will even remember my name by that point.

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