> The third book in the series, The Last Star, was released on May 24, 2016
Here is a book review from Amazon:
[NOTE: you get the feeling in the movie that the government could be behind it all]
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2018
Book number three of a three book young adult alien invasion series.
This series [became] about the most depressing SF series that I have ever read [after reading the last book]. About 99.8% of the human race is dead and the last 0.2% are not doing very well. The amount of violence is the book is simply breathtaking.
We spotted the Alien spaceship when it starting braking at Mars orbit. Ten days later, it went into orbit around the Earth. It was the size of Manhattan and circled at 250 miles up. All attempts at communication failed. Then the waves started.
The first wave: an EMP blast worldwide destroyed all electronics and electrical system. A million people were killed in planes and such.
The second wave: the others dropped a rock a mile wide into the ocean. The resulting tsunamis killed half of the world's population who lived within 60 miles of a coastline.
The third wave: the others infected birds with a highly contagious disease with a 97% fatality rate for humans.
The fourth wave: the others implanted nanomachine AI systems into many humans who started killing unimplanted humans. Trust no one !
The fifth wave: …
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With all of that said, why did I hate this book? The first 2 books (which became 2 of my favorite YA novels ever) built all fans up in a way that we were aching for the explanation of the invasion. Well…in this book
we find out all the aliens are actually dead and technology [AI?] is controlling the whole thing, but how?
We still don't know how Vosch knows all that he knows and how he came to be. We don't know why the Others decided to kill the human race and what they planned to do with Earth after. And there was a point where Vosch was saying there were only a limited amount of escape pods and when Evan Walker asks why, Vosch says he will explain…but doesn't. At all. It's a total mess that left me with more questions than the speculations of the invasion I had from the first 2 books! I have to add:
in the second book it was hinted that the 5 waves might not be from aliens, but from human government instead.
It was never said outright, but it could have been a possibility. In the third book, it would have made way more sense when Vosch was semi-explaining to say
that the government did it as a means for population control to save the Earth instead of aliens were doing it to save the Earth, but giving no more information after that.
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BINGO! govern+ment = psychopaths who control the mind (Public Opinion)
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BTW, the author, Nick Yancy, gives me the creeps. For one, he is a devote ATHEIST. Look, I have no issues with agnosticism because I am one, but those IMO who take that BOLD extra step in declaring that there is no GOD tend toward nihilism or worse fatalism. I wouldn't at all be surprised if this dude spent some time at the Farm if you know what I mean. Remember the author who wrote the Exorcist was head of PsyOps at C_A.