{"id":41,"date":"2015-07-19T17:39:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T17:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erikawinterlia.winterlia.se\/web\/?p=41"},"modified":"2018-01-18T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:35:11","slug":"the-5th-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"The 5th Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Rick Yancey<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book is probably not the worst I’ve read, but it sure isn’t the best. It’s an OK book, nothing else.
\nPersonally I don’t like the style of writing, I find it confusing, repetitive and “jumpy”. One moment we’re in present tense, the next it past tense. It also feels like some events are skipped and you’re not sure about what’s really happening. Sentences feel backwards and…I don’t know how to explain it other than to say it took at least two reads to make sense of some sentences.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The first half was decent (and here I kind of liked Cassie’s voice) and I managed to read that in just a day, but the second half of the book took me so much longer and I had to fight to read it to the end. Also, Cassie’s voice seemed to change and she became forgettable and boring, and just faded out into oblivion. Cassie started out an annoying whiny girl and ended up just the same, which is ashame.<\/p>\n

Also the whole POV thing was super confusing at times and you had to go back several paragraphs sometimes just do double check who was talking since it wasn’t clear in the beginning. There wasn’t any distinct difference in the way the two characters spoke, they sounded like the same person the whole time.<\/p>\n

I can’t really see why this book has gotten so many great reviews, because I have rarely struggled so much to finish a book. I most likely skipped quite a few paragraphs here and there towards the end just to make the pain of reading go away. The sequel will not be read, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

I can’t recommend this book unfortunately.<\/p>\n

You can get the book at Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

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by Rick Yancey This book is probably not the worst I’ve read, but it sure isn’t the best. It’s an OK book, nothing else. Personally I don’t like the style of writing, I find it confusing, repetitive and “jumpy”. One moment we’re in present tense, the next it past tense. It also feels like some events are skipped and you’re not sure about what’s really happening. Sentences feel backwards and…I don’t know how to explain it other than to say it took at least two reads to make sense of some sentences. The first half was decent (and here I kind of liked Cassie’s voice) and I managed to read that in just a day, but the second half of the book took me so much longer and I had to fight to read it to the end. Also, Cassie’s voice seemed to change and she became forgettable and boring, and just faded out into oblivion. Cassie started out an annoying whiny girl and ended up just the same, which is ashame. Also the whole POV thing was super confusing at times and you had to go back several paragraphs sometimes just do double check who was talking since it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"Yes","cwp_rev_product_name":"The 5th Wave","cwp_rev_product_image":"http:\/\/erikawinterlia.winterlia.se\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/5wave.jpg","cwp_image_link":"image","wppr_links":[],"cwp_rev_price":"","wppr_pros":["I like the idea of the aliens and all","","","",""],"wppr_cons":["Bad writing","Confusing","","",""],"wppr_rating":"30.00","wppr_options":{"1":{"name":"Overall","value":"30"},"2":{"name":"Plot","value":"30"},"3":{"name":"Writing","value":"30"},"4":{"name":"Characters","value":"30"},"5":{"name":"Ending","value":"30"}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}