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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #33 – Top Ten Underrated Characters I’d Share My Birthday Cake With

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I thought this would be a fun way to share a condensed version of potential rambles and thoughts that I have.

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This Week’s Theme:
 Top Ten Underrated Characters
I’d Share My Birthday Cake With

Initial Thoughts:

So….

(Last weeks theme: book characters that’d sit at your lunch table) + (This weeks theme: underrated books/authors) + (day of birth [Sept 9]) = today’s theme. With cake.

I figured I’d try to incorporate them into one topic, sort of. I can’t say whether or not I identify with the underrated/underdog characters in novels but they’re definitely among my favourite characters even if they have less screen time (in terms of not being the main hero/heroine). Though it’s very possible that some of these characters aren’t underrated after all. Either way, I’d hand them a slice and tell them, “you done good.”

….I guess it’d also be awkward to cut the cake into 11 sections (though I will dismiss the fact that I would probably enjoy eating a larger slice) so it’d probably be cut into 12; and you, said reader, can enjoy a slice of celebration for these characters as well.

As per usual, images link back to their respective Goodreads.

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #1 – Top Ten Books I Read in 2013

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I thought this would be a fun way to share a condensed version of potential rambles and thoughts that I have.

This week’s theme:
Top Ten Books I Read in 2013

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[Review] The 5th Wave – Rick Yancey

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Book Title:                    The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave Series #01)
Author:                            Rick Yancey
Number of pages:    457

Synopsis:

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.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.

(re: Goodreads @ The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey)

Should this book be picked up? the tl;dr spoiler-less review:
  • The world and plot is quite familiar – aliens, post-apocalypse, aliens, world domination, romance. Cool beans.
  • Story-telling through varying perspectives; a mix of characterisations (fresh and prototypical).
  • The writing is purposeful, connected, and tension-seeking even in downtime.
  • Formulaic YA romance; which ship to sail on?
Initial Thoughts:

I know what you’re thinking: a narrative similar to Meyer’s ‘The Host’. And you’re absolutely right. And wrong. At the same time. Page turn. But it takes the alien invasion we know so well—sort of well, and integrates it’s own spin on things.

Oh. The feeling of staccatos above is just how many sections read. You can love or hate it, but I wasn’t too bothered by it.

With trending YA post-apocalyptic dystopian literature, it is relevance that makes this genre of narratives all the more compelling and frightening. Relevance to world-building (especially if it’s of a contemporary nature); relevance to human dynamics; and relevance depicted through multifaceted storytelling. My superficial expectations.

So does the 5th Wave’s initial instalment hit most of the marks? Yes and no.

I’ll tell you why.

Disclaimer: Potential spoilers inherent to this review from here onward.

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