The world that New Cassie lives in is dog-eat-dog, or human-shoot-alien, or even (gulp) human-shoot-human.īasically-as Evan sees it-Cassie did what Cassie had to do to survive:įear didn't paralyze Cassie Sullivan, like it did some humans. She couldn't know for sure if he was alien or human, so she did what she had to do. We learn that at the beginning of the book, when she kills a soldier during a routine water run. And she sure is crazy by mine I wonder what that Cassie would think of me. … I'm probably crazy by that Cassie's standards. I'm talking about the Cassie I was before the Arrival…. Thinking about the Old Cassie is a source of pain for New Cassie… and not just because Old Cassie had access to things like, say, electricity and metropolises that weren't filled with corpses. New Cassie has the aforementioned rifle and alien sweetie-pie.
Old Cassie had an ordinary life, a family, a best friend named Lizbeth, and a major crush on Ben Parish. We'll call them "Old Cassie" and "New Cassie" for short. She was once a normal kid, with normal problems.Īnd that means that this novel deals with two Cassies, the pre-apocalypse Cassie and the post-apocalypse Cassie. She didn't always have the stamina of John McClane, the tenacity of Ellen Louise Ripley, and the scrappiness of The Force Awakens' Rey. The Two CassiesĬassie, though, wasn't always an odd mash-up of heroic abilities. She also has an assault rifle (and knows how to use it).īut she also has an extremely devoted alien boyfriend, which is fortunate since she's on a suicidal mission to rescue her baby brother from the clutches are far less devoted alien captors. She's a little shell-shocked and a little depressed. She's smart, athletic, determined, and practical. (At least for now-this book is the first of a three-part series, after all.)Ĭassie's everything you'd expect from someone who has managed to live through an alien invasion. To paraphrase Beyoncé, she's a survivor she's gonna make it. She's a (deep breath) sixteen-year-old girl that happens to be an orphan, and happens to be falling in love with an alien… and happens to be living in a post-apocalyptic world.
She's a sixteen-year-old girl that happens to be an orphan, and happens to be falling in love with an alien. She's a sixteen-year-old girl that happens to be an orphan. Cassie Sullivan is a sixteen-year-old girl.
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