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Rick Yancey

    November 4, 1962

    Rick Yancey, also known as Richard Yancey, is a Florida native who transitioned to a full-time writing career after earning a degree in English. His acclaimed works span two distinct series, one aimed at young readers and another at adults, both featuring settings in Knoxville, Tennessee. Yancey's narrative voice is celebrated for its unique appeal and engaging qualities. He masterfully crafts stories that resonate with a broad audience.

    Rick Yancey
    The Monstrumologist
    The infinite sea
    The extraordinary adventures of Alfred Kropp
    The 5th Wave
    The 5th Wave Collection
    The Isle of Blood
    • 2017

      Praise for The 5th Wave Now a major motion picture starring Chloë Grace Moretz Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances.-Entertainment Weekly A modern sci-fi masterpiece . . .-USAToday.com Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough.-Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review Praise for The Infinite Sea Heart-pounding pacing, lyrical prose and mind-bending twists . . .-The New York Times Book Review Impressively improves on the excellent beginning of the trilogy.-USA Today An epic sci-fi novel with all the romance, action, and suspense you could ever want.-Seventeen.com Praise for The Last Star Yancey's prose remains achingly precise, and this grows heavier, tighter, and more impossible to put down as the clock runs out...this blistering finale proves the truth of the first two volumes: it was never about the aliens.-Booklist, starred review A haunting, unforgettable finale.-Kirkus Reviews Yancey doesn't hit the breaks for one moment, and the action is intense, but the language always stays lyrical and lovely. It's a satisfying end to an impressive trilogy, true to the characters and the world Yancey created.-Entertainment Weekly Yancey has capped off his riveting series with a perfect ending.-TeenReads.com [T]he ending provides both satisfaction and heartbreak.-Publishers Weekly Yancey's writing is just as solid and descriptive as in the first two books....What Yancey does beautifully is reveal the human condition.-Examiner.com Rick Yancey sticks the (alien) landing in the action-packed finale to his The 5th Wave invasion saga . . . . And the author gives us a major dose of girl power as well, pairing Cassie and Ringer for an uneasy alliance that provides the best moments in this fantastic series' thought-provoking and satisfying conclusion.-USA Today Books in the series: The 5th Wave (The First Book of The 5th Wave) The Infinite Sea (The Second Book of The 5th Wave) The Last Star (The Third Book of the The 5th Wave)

      The 5th Wave Collection
    • 2016

      The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves. In these last days, Earth’s remaining survivors will need to decide what’s more important: saving themselves…or saving what makes us human.

      The Last Star
    • 2016

      Will Henry hat bereits viel erlebt und dem Tod mehrmals entronnen. Doch dieses Mal muss er allein in die gefährlichen Tiefen des Monstrumariums hinabsteigen, um sich einem furchtbaren Monster zu stellen, das schlimmer ist, als er es sich je hätte vorstellen können.

      Der Monstrumologe und das Drachenei. Roman
    • 2015
    • 2014

      The 5th Wave - 2: The Infinite Sea

      • 300 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race. Cassie and her friends haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate.

      The 5th Wave - 2: The Infinite Sea
    • 2014

      Dr. Warthrop jagt ein legendäres Monster, den "Heiligen Gral" der Monstrumologie, und lässt Will Henry in New York zurück. Nach Monaten erhält Will die schreckliche Nachricht vom Tod des Doktors und misstraut dem neuen Assistenten. Er begibt sich auf die Suche nach seinem Lehrmeister und reist nach Socotra, der Insel des Blutes.

      Der Monstrumologe und die Insel des Blutes. Roman
    • 2014

      The infinite sea

      • 300 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.9(5279)Add rating

      "Cassie Sullivan and her companions lived through the Others' four waves of destruction. Now, with the human race nearly exterminated and the 5th Wave rolling across the landscape, they face a choice: brace for winter and hope for Evan Walker's return, or set out in search of other survivors before the enemy closes in"--

      The infinite sea
    • 2013

      The 5th Wave

      • 457 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      4.0(417600)Add rating

      The New York Times bestseller comes to the big screen! A USA Today bestseller Winner of the 2014 Red House Children's Book Award 2014 Children's Choice Book Awards Finalist for Teen Book of the Year A YALSA 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults A YALSA 2014 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers A Booklist 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults A VOYA 2013 Perfect Ten An Amazon Best Book of the Year "Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."--Entertainment Weekly The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic New York Times bestselling series debut 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. "Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."--Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review "A modern sci-fi masterpiece . . . should do for aliens what Twilight did for vampires."--USAToday.com Books in the series: The 5th Wave (The First Book of The 5th Wave) The Infinite Sea (The Second Book of The 5th Wave) The Last Star (The Third Book of the The 5th Wave)

      The 5th Wave
    • 2012

      The Curse of the Wendigo

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      4.1(148)Add rating

      Flesh-eating danger abounds in the chilling sequel to The Monstrumologist that is “as fast-paced, elegant, and yes, gruesome as its predecessor” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). While Dr. Warthrop is attempting to disprove that Homo vampiris, the vampire, could exist, his former fiancée asks him to save her husband, who has been captured by a Wendigo—a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh. Although Dr. Warthrop considers the Wendigo to be fictitious, he relents and performs the rescue—but is he right to doubt the Wendigo’s existence? Can the doctor and Will Henry hunt down the ultimate predator, who, like the legendary vampire, is neither living nor dead, and whose hunger for human flesh is never satisfied? This second book in The Monstrumologist series explores the line between myth and reality, love and hate, genius and madness.

      The Curse of the Wendigo
    • 2012

      When Dr. Warthrop goes hunting for the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" in 1888, twelve-year-old orphan Will Henry follows him to Socotra, plunging into depths of horror worse than anything he has experienced so far.

      The Isle of Blood