When she writes in her journal she infuses humor in an attempt to ease some of the tension. Cassie’s narrative voice in The Last Star is somewhat edgier than in the earlier installments. The author uses multiple narrative voices which shift at various significant moments to present different points of view. The saga is presented in four sections with each one representing one of the days that remain before the next wave of attacks is to begin. Here, in The Last Star, faith is more the common motif along with questions that revolve around such concepts as what to trust and what to believe in as the end of the world approaches. In the first book, The 5th Wave, and the second, The Infinite Sea, images connected to death and destruction were of a more physical nature. This entry in the trilogy reflects Biblical apocalypse stories and an atmosphere of pending doom is pervasive. The priest says mass for the final time as he has depleted the supplies of both the wine for mass and the bread required to use as the host. Yancey’s The Last Star begins with a priest who is in hiding in a group of caves in Ohio along with some of humanity’s survivors. The survivors who remain at this point, Cassie, Sam, Zombie, Ringer, and Megan know that they are running out of time to stop the devastation that they have been fighting. Evan Walker, a part human and part alien Silencer, knows that on the spring equinox which is only four days from arriving the Silencers will be called to return to their mother ship at which point the next wave of alien destruction will commence. They are disembodied, a consciousness rather than beings, who nevertheless are taking over a planet.
The Others are aliens whose ultimate objectives have never been quite clear.
Multiple waves of alien attacks by the Others have placed the future of mankind in doubt and left the earth in turmoil and ruin. It brings to conclusion the saga of the battle between sixteen-year-old Cassiopeia “Cassie” Sullivan and aliens who have invaded Earth.
It is the final installment in his The 5th Wave trilogy, coming after The Infinite Sea. The Last Star by American author Rick Yancey is a 2016 science fiction novel for young adults.
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