Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview... a normal teen thrown into an impossible situation. When an aggressive alien force called The Others sends waves of destruction in order to wipe out all human life on Earth, Cassie has to stop worrying about high school crushes and start worrying about surviving. After her little brother Sam is recruited into the military’s resistance force, Cassie grabs a gun and sets off across a desolate, dangerous landscape in order to rescue him.
Personality... resilient, resourceful, and not quite as brave as she pretends to be. Cassie is no warrior, but she’ll do what she has to in order to safeguard the people she loves. She’s always been protective of her little brother Sam and that feeling only intensifies after The Others arrive. As her world crumbles around her, Cassie must rely on her ingenuity, intellect, and instincts in order to survive.
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16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
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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.
