Rick Yancey’s The Fifth Wave is an extended allegory about the depredations and immorality of hypercapitalism as we currently practice it.

Once I realized that, I began liking the series better.

It is not a great series, but it’s a pretty accurate representation of how our form of capitalism (and perhaps all capitalism) leads to a war of all against all, the destruction of communities, the viewing of humans as interchangeable cogs, and the extreme power of mind-controlling propaganda.

I wouldn’t quite recommend any of the novels, but I thought this allegory was handled well.