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Aunt Flo Period Tracker: Simple Menstrual Calendar

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The Aunt Flo Period Tracker is bold, honest, and humorous! Aunt Flo says what women really think...

DSM-5 Pocket Guide for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Robert J. Hilt and Abraham M. Nussbaum

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Building on the best-selling Pocket Guide to the DSM-5 Diagnostic Exam, The DSM-5 Pocket Guide for...

Your Patient Safety Survival Guide: How to Protect Yourself and Others from Medical Errors

Gretchen Lefever Watson and Leah Binder

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It takes a village to combat preventable errors and omissions that cause millions of deaths and...

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Introducing MYDAWA, the new and innovative app that offers a wide range of high quality medication...

Sophia (Bookwyrming Thoughts) (530 KP) rated The 5th Wave: Book 1 in Books

Jan 23, 2020

I really wanted to like The 5th Wave. The synopsis sounded fantastic, it's becoming a movie – the book just sounded like one of those that I would probably read quickly, enjoy it, demand the second book (in other words, snag it straight off Lupe's shelf), read through that quickly, and pretty much have another favorite book this year (there's really only two so far that are special).

I didn't even last thirty pages. Thirty pages, which says a lot, because while I may give up on books more often now, I don't usually give up THAT early.

The premise wasn't what made me give up reading The 5th Wave – characters trying to fight for survival? Sounds like Hatchet, only with the "aliens" attacking with "waves."

I only stopped because of Cassie. Cassie, short for Cassiopeia, the main character of the book. I couldn't stand her for the life of me.

She's materialistic – in a world when the world is literally falling apart around you, who cares about hygiene being top priority? It's great she cares (because you can't just walk to a job interview smelling like horse poop), but by the whatever wave that's past the first, I'm pretty sure you're too busy making surviving the day your priority.

She's rude – if there's one thing I don't like, it's texting while in a conversation simply because you're bored. Then, she says, "Oh, and in case you're an alien reading this? BITE ME."

Totally. I'm totally willing to bite Cassie... in a review, that is.

Basically, there was a vibe about her I didn't like early on. But with all of the flashbacks at literally every chapter, I not only got to know the world before the 1st Wave, I got to know Cassie as a person. And Cassie probably tops the list of the most annoying characters I've ever come across in a book.

Someone please tell me I'm not the only one who couldn't stand Cassie. If I am, I'm willing to cry in a little corner alone with my lonesome self...

<a href="https://bookwyrmingthoughts.com/dnf-review-the-5th-wave-by-rick-yancey/"; target="_blank">This review was originally posted on Bookwyrming Thoughts</a>