Where Cassie’s sole motivation is the need to survive and find her brother, Ben goes through this incredible emotional transformation. It’s such a difficult determination to make, especially because the two other principle characters in the book, Ben and Evan, have much deeper inner lives. It’s a fine line though between relatable and generic, and I’m still on the fence if Cassie is the former or latter. Schools us.” She’s a character who serves the narrative first, before existing in her own right. Roughly half of the book is written in her voice, and Yancey uses her as his authorial surrogate, explaining the waves of the alien invasion, describing backstory, and making tumblr-ready aphorisms like, “It’s the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken … What doesn’t kill us sharpens us. Her personality consists of sarcastic quips, and a bleak attitude despite her strong will to keep moving and living. Cassie, Yancey’s first narrator, is fairly generic as far as teenage female survivalists go.
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