The Fifth Day

I already finished one book and I like to talk about it.

It calls “The fifth day”, I started to read it at September and I have finished recently. It’s a big book, with almost 1000 pages (I think it’s the biggest book I have never red) and also lately I have not enough time to read because of the studies.

I like to read and I have enjoyed this book. It is a sciences fiction book but all what is say in it is scientifically correct. It’s can be say that is a scientific book and I think it's very good documented, too.

It talks about a set of characters that are investigating some strange success that take place in the world, especially in the oceans. All start with a poor fisherman who disappeared without any track. From here every time strange things happen in the oceans, seems that the nature turns against humanity.

There are invasions of poisonous algae, animals become aggressive and start to attack humans and their boats. Suddenly all the whales seem that are mad and hit and skin the sailor boats. A lot of poisoner jellyfish and contaminated crabs invade all the coast and kill the people. And is discovered a strange worm in the deep sea that destroys the seafloor and causes leakage of methane. For his fault there are some tsunamis that destroy Europe.


The world drive crazy, nobody knows what is happening in the ocean and what is happening with animals. The sea is unnavigable but has to be something that is causing all this bad.

Finally the government of USA tries to take the control of the situation. They create a group with the best investigators and scientific that there are in the world and try to investigate what is happening. Little by little they discover a lot of things. The real threat came from the deeps. There exist unicellular creatures that they never had been seen. They are smart creatures and are trying to eliminate the humanity from the world because are damage the Earth.

This new creatures are very intelligent. Are like a real society and exist from the principles of the earth. But they are not like the humans and don’t have awareness. Eliminate the humanity is only a survival instinct.

Finally the scientific can save the word deceiving the unicellular. But it cost them the live of some and it isn’t a solution forever. Henceforth humans should care the earth and learn to coexist with the rest of the species.


I think it’s an entertaining story and full of suspense and unknowns. When you find out that exist another smart specie is fantastic because it’s an extraordinary fact. At the other hand they are trying to get out of humanity and seem a little evil but really they are keeping the specie.

All characters are very intelligent and have interesting theories. There are scientific from different specialties and I like when they are investigating in the laboratories and after they put all in common and draw conclusions.

Besides an interesting and original story it’s for think about what are we doing with the earth. The humans think that the world is own and we only look for ourselves. We don’t understand the coexistence with other species or with the oceans. We damage all and it means that we are damaging ourselves, too. Because we are habitats of the earth and we destroys it.

The author is Frank Schätzing. He’s music, music producer, have an advertising agency and he writes, too. He is an expert diver and because it they had wrote this book. In my opinion, the story is enough good so that there is a film. It could have good scenes!

So I recommend this book and invite to enjoy it like I have enjoyed. Probably is more interesting for someone who likes biologics because is discussed and there are some things that can seem a little boring if you don’t like. In any case I think that everybody can read it, although it’s quiet large. 


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