3/14/2023 0 Comments Lowes milky sporeIn June 2002, they issued their first album, Songs About Jane.Īt first, it got completely unnoticed. It took almost one year, until May 2003, to ultimately manage to reach the US Top 200 Album Chart. Some 12 weeks later, the album broke the Top 100, after 7 more weeks it was Top 50. It is only in April 2004 and the success of This Love that Songs About Jane got into the Top 10, ultimately peaking at #6 in September, a mere 27 months after its release. Their success was rather big from that point although following albums It Won’t Be Soon Before Long and Hands All Over saw the band popularity fade.įrom mid-2007 to mid-2011, all their singles missed the top 10, the last 3 completely missing the top 50. After the 1st wave, only darkness remains.It was the traditional trajectory of most artists. Who have scatter After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them.Īfter the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. But now that I’ve finished, I’m just so pissed with the whole thing I have nothing nice to say and really just want to punch something, and in fact, I dislike The 5th Wave so much I’ve somehow written not one but three ang ".bastardized sci-fi for the Twilight crowd." ".bastardized sci-fi for the Twilight crowd." Well this is awkward. Everything about The 5th Wave - an award winning male young adult author, a high octane alien invasion plot, the comparisons to Ender’s Game and The Passage - made it seem like it’d exactly my kind of book. Rant Number 1: The Alien Invasion is Beyond Disappointing But now that I’ve finished, I’m just so pissed with the whole thing I have nothing nice to say and really just want to punch something, and in fact, I dislike The 5th Wave so much I’ve somehow written not one but three angry rants - yeah, be warned, this is going to be brutal(ly honest). The 5th Wave shouldn’t even qualify as science fiction unless it’s being mentioned in the same breath as Jennifer Armentrout’s Lux series (even Stephenie Meyer’s The Host is too good for this comparison). Why? Because there’s just nothing here but a collection of alien invasion tropes leading to an actual plot that’s all over the place, part cringe worthy young adult ‘romance’ (which I never would have expected outside of the usual suspects. see rant number three), all leading to a nonsensical alien conspiracy by a group of ‘Others’, who, if they’d really been studying us and planning our demise for as long as they claim, rather than the harebrained scheme they’ve concocted to ‘break’ humanity, should’ve just taken their cues from this awesome game: but that’s the topic of the next rant), part bizarre military training sequence (hence the unfounded comparisons to Ender’s Game. In fact, I’ve seen my share of memorable alien invasion plots. Between Falling Skies, War of the Worlds, and Invasion America, Steven Spielberg has even done it three times. So at this point, count me unsurprised by the basic premise of The 5th Wave, but even so I still wasn’t prepared for how derivative this book actually is *cough*infestation with obvious red herring*cough*.īut don’t get me wrong, I’m not exactly looking for new and original - I just wanted something that, I don’t know, isn’t a clichefest? Any serious, well done treatment would have sufficed. And yet, I’m wracking my head trying to think of anything else remotely this bad.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |