GLOBAL BLOG TOUR - 5 BOOK GIVEAWAYS PLUS TOUR GIVEAWAY & AUDIO SNIPPET- THE 5TH WAVE by RICK YANCEY - PENGUIN

Novels On The Run has never been asked to join a Global Blog Tour before, this is very exciting for us.  What is more exciting is how freakin' awesome this book is. The 5th Wave really does rock the kazbah. Rick Yancey , hits it out the ball park with his Alien invasion apocalyptic read. 

Seriously it is a wicked read!

My review is HERE and I don't give any spoilers, which was freakin' hard.  I have to just shout out how awesome this book is. Truly, I am not joking, this is a heart pounding, totally one sitting read if your time permits. 

For those of you who read my reviews, you know I always speak from my heart about how I feel. This book had me humming and a bit over excited after I had finished. I had to give it half a day to calm down before I wrote my review. 

I am going to be telling you today what I would be putting inside my survival backpack , plus I have an audio excerpt for you . Like , seriously how cool is that. All the bloggers will have one for you on the tour. At the end of the tour the whole audio excerpt will be revealed. 

I LOVE a creative blog tour.

GIVEAWAY

 CHECK TOUR BANNER AT TOP OF THIS POSTING FOR INSTRUCTIONS

Check the tour banner at the top of this posting , I assume it is International , you can enter by answering the question above on the banner. Go to each blog around the world on the tour and listen to ALL the snippets and answer the Q by going to the email address on the banner. Do what the banner tells you to do to enter and you could win one of 10 signed copies.

SYNOPSIS - THE 5TH WAVE

The Passage meets Ender’s Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. 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. To give up or to get up.


This is a really cool snippet. Take a listen. I really like the narrators voice. I could quite easily listen to this audio book. I was remembering the passage as she was narrating it.

Here is my vlog of what I would pack in my survival pack.

GIVEAWAY TIME

( Check the tour banner at top of this posting. I assume it is international to win 1 of 10 signed copies, do what it tells you to do) 

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ENDS 31ST MAY 2013

GOOD LUCK!

Michelle

www.the5thwaveiscoming.com

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ARC BOOK REVIEW - THE 5TH WAVE by RICK YANCEY - PENGUIN AUST - 6 FREAKIN 'A' FOR ALIEN INVASION STARS! YEAH , I WENT THERE, PEOPLE!!

By: Rick Yancey

Published By: Penguin Aust

Released : 7th May 2013

Details: Paperback for review from Publisher, 460 Pages

RATING: 6 FREAKIN 'A' FOR ALIEN INVASION STARS!

OO YEAH , I WENT THERE!!!

Blurb : Goodreads

The Passage meets Ender’s Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. 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. To give up or to get up.

BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:

Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. 

And if this is humanity’s last war, then I am the battlefield. 

Rick Yancey brings the freakin 'A' to Alien invasion. I could not put this book down. Rick will hold you captive with his brilliant, realistic use of several lead characters whose stories flow so well together.

This is a clever read. 

I brought 6 stars to this read as it went beyond the call of 5 stars, for me.

Rick will brain wash the reader with his smooth storytelling, he does not waste words. We, the collective reader will watch it play out like this AMAZING big budget movie at the cost of a book.

In saying that, Rick’s book has film rights sold, already! To that I say no shit Sherlock as seriously I just watched the movie in my head and I would sure as hell pay to see it on the big screen.

Amazing for Rick and well deserved.

Rick leaves no stone unturned in this installment. I understand  there are atleast 3 books in the series to be written.

I. Can’t. Wait.

This book is literally going to have a human invasion of readers of all ages, a captivated audience hollering praise for The 5th Wave.

It is a frighteningly realistic read.

16 year old Cassie has a brilliant voice. You really feel her will to survive and her intelligence. But you also feel her pain and loss like it was your own. She holds it all together better and more realistic than Bruce Willis in a Die Hard Movie.

I loved being in Cassie’s head and listening to the way she thinks things through, talks to herself after being alone with nobody to physically talk out loud to for weeks on end. She banters with herself.

Two spiral-bound notebooks, college ruled, one with a purple cover, the other red. My favourite colors, plus they’re my journals. It’s part of the hope thing. But if I am the last and there’s no one left to read them, maybe an alien will and they’ll know exactly what I think of them. In case you’re an alien and you’re reading this:

BITE ME.



“Here I am! Come and get me, you son of a bitch!” 

She doesn’t want to rely on anyone, she trusts only her own instincts. They have kept her alive so far.

“Trusted that when it got dark there would be light. Trusted that when you wanted a fucking strawberry Frappuccino you could plop your ass in the car, drive down the street, and get yourself a fucking strawberry Frappuccino! Trusted...”

Her very human instincts will have her trusting in another.

Cassie really gets the reader involved in her survival, I was right there egging her on. Totally getting why she is feeling the way she is, totally getting her behaviour. Totally wanting her to survive . She is not an annoying character, she is a girl you want on your side, teaching you the ropes of survival. 

Cassie brings it.

Think of a character in apocalyptic movies that you would hang with to survive, Cassie is that person. She is Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead. Well, you know what I mean.

I was held glued to my book by Rick’s words. Words are funny things, they can have no impact on a person, lead you to boredom and then they can be the words of Yancey, that leave you gripping your book and buzzing with adrenaline. You are Cassie’s shadow. You are a part of this invasion for the length of the book...and then some.

You are part of the other lead characters and their slice of the invasion and how it is impacting them.

This is a book where you can’t write the review straight away as you are buzzing, literally humming, vibrating after finishing it.

A thoroughly energetic, fast paced, page turner with a well thought out clever plot. If Rick was an Alien......an Other, I think us humans would be in a world of hurt as the lad can write a convincing realistic Alien apocalyptic takeover. I would not want him in charge of the little green people J 

I am glad he is on our side as I don't think we would stand a chance.

I went through quite a few WT!! moments. Rick will be brutal with his war between Humans and Aliens. After all this is a war of survival.

I like to hold out hope that humans can overcome what looks like the near impossible.

But , there are always a few tricks up a barely surviving sides sleeve. Where there is a will, there will be a way.

Well, I hope so for all humanity.

The things I am not telling you in this review, OMG! They are a whole book of spoilers. So all I can really say is , GET THIS BOOK , it is YA Gold! Cassie is only the start of the great characters you will be living the invasion through.

Nobody is going down without a fight! And we get a front row seat.

Michelle

TOP READ FOR 2013

BLOODY BRILLIANT!