
Yancey is actually author of ‘ The Monstrumologist’, which was awarded the 2010 Michael L. The first clue that ‘The Fifth Wave’ is not your typical sci/fi-dystopian YA, should be that Rick Yancey is not your typical author to be joining the genre-trend bandwagon. ‘The Fifth Wave’ is the first book in a new sci/fi young adult series from Rick Yancey. She regrets letting Sammy get on that bus with the soldiers.Īnd she regrets leaving her father at the Ash Pit, ambushed by those same soldiers and left for dead.Ĭassie may be living with her regrets, but she’s also living with a plan – to get Sammy back, no matter what. She regrets not insisting that she help her father, as he buried her mother. She regrets that her family – mum, dad and little brother, Sammy – didn’t get out sooner, after the 2nd Wave came. She regrets not telling Ben Parish, high-school heart-throb, how she felt about him these many years and that she didn’t even attempt to make him know she existed.

She regrets that her family didn’t panic more before the 1st Wave came, that they actually thought some intergalactic peace-keeping might happen. Cassie Sullivan has grown used to living with regret.
