Written by: Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsmith and Jeff Pinker They must write book reports from Classics Illustrated comics. Rowling and nothing at all about Jane Austen. In the fifth wave, humans will live like cockroaches.Īnother boring and cliché-riddled bid to join the young adult market already overpopulated by X-Men, Hunger Games, Twilight vampires and interminable hordes of rampaging zombies, The 5th Wave is a typical example of the kind of dopey junk that passes for literature among today’s unsophisticated teens, who know everything about J.