Reviews

Persephone Station by Stina Leicht

bryn_cavin's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

4.25

heartles's review

adventurous funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

not a lot of character development but it's pretty fun. ending felt kinda rushed and anticlimactic. lou is awesome

hyperactive_ewok's review

adventurous medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

rosetintgrl's review

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

While I appreciated the inclusivity of this book, I was left glazing over some parts. I honestly left like it was trying to be written for a scene adaptation instead of a book. Overall fun, liked the characters, and main villain was lack luster.

brakebills42's review

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

gkepps's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

swedzee1990's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

curlieron's review

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

blastoise's review

3.0

2.5 stars.

I really wanted to like this book, I tried very hard. I loved the diverse characters, vast majority are women or non binary people, the setting is cool, the concepts are cool, the indigenous species are cool.

Buuut this book introduced waay too many characters early on with little development making it hard to follow from the get go. The most intriguing POV and group was the indigenous peoples of the planet who we meet in chapter one then don't see them again till about half way and we get no more POV from them after the first chapter even though they are the most compelling part of the book.

Throughout the book we meet a variety of characters who are often built up then left behind all in one or two chapters.

The antagonist started off interesting then was disappointingly underdeveloped and her ending/climax was cliche and underwhelming.

I think it would have been much better with an Emissary POV throughout, consistent character development with our main cast and less so with side characters who are barely in it, and more of a backstory of the antagonist's history so we understand her motivations better.

kae_a13's review

adventurous challenging dark inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75