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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

42 reviews

krispyyk's review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.0

Lots of stuff going on under the same theme - what makes life meaningful 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Gun violence, Violence, Suicide, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Death, Murder, Rape, and Sexual assault

parfait52's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

It took me several months to get through this book, which is saying something because it's fairly short. Every time I picked it up, I was interested enough. Once I put it down, though, I didn't feel the need to pick it back up. This book doesn't really have a plot so much as it has a story. And once you figure out how the story is forming and the author is doing, it's very easy to know where it's going to go. At times, I found the writing to be beautiful and profound. I found the concept fascinating, but the execution was stifling at points. There were several parts of the book that I personally found very boring and wanted to get past immediately. Overall, not a bad read. There are just books I've enjoyed more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Confinement, Cursing, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Stalking, Gun violence, and Blood

Minor: Pregnancy, Child death, Alcoholism, Drug use, Rape, and Sexual assault

clementine9's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful tense slow-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual assault and Trafficking

amsswim's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this book, wow. This is the 20th book I have read this year and my favorite one so far. A multiperspective book on a fast acting pandemic with time jumps before and after this apocalypse. That basic intro into the book alone would've had me by the chokehold, I knew it had to do with a post-apocalyptic society but nothing more. It was the little moments for me though, that really made this. WHile the plot overall I found very interesting, the environment and motivations were all very realistic to me which made the small moments in this world all the more meaningful. I must read from me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Terminal illness, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, and Pedophilia

Minor: Mental illness, Rape, and Sexual assault

annaofjesup's review against another edition

adventurous reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Car accident, Cursing, Child death, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Confinement, Pregnancy, and Rape

amberelizabeth7's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Mainly reviewing to preserve the quote I’d bookmarked but have to return the library book! 

This was a recommendation and while slightly slow to get into, turned out magnificently and I already kind of want to reread for stuff I likely missed.

I would say defo check trigger warnings, and don’t read if it’s too soon to read vividly your worst fears for how the recent pandemic could’ve gone….

“I’m talking about these people who’ve ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? They’ve done what’s expected of them they want to do something different but that’s impossible now, there’s a mortgage, kids, whatever, they’re trapped. Dan’s like that.” …. “….high functioning sleepwalkers, essentially” … “… I think people like him think work is supposed to be drudgery punctuated by very occasional moments of happiness, but when I say happiness, I mostly mean distraction. You know what I mean?”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Abandonment, Death, Suicide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Infidelity, and Animal death

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Gun violence

startjpw23's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is an adult dystopian novel. Early in the book a very contagious, very virulent version of the flu overtakes the world. Most of the earth's population is wiped out. The story is told from multiple perspectives. It bounces back and forth between various time periods. It goes as far forward as 20 years after the onset of the flu. It does a great job with what would happen with civilization in situations like this. If that was the only focus of the story, it would be a great book. What makes it exceptional is it goes way back in time (long before the flu) for some of the characters. It shows them early on and how their lives progressed. It shows their successes and failures. Not all of the characters survive the flu.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

bookb1itch's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This was my second read of this book and i enjoyed it even more, possibly because i watched and was disappointed by, the Amazon (?) series.  Now i really understand why our English teachers warm kids studying the text not to watch the series.  They are so very different.
I read this whilst on holiday overseas and was haunted by the airport scenes when I was coming home - imagine being stuck without your medicine, because you KNEW you were only a few  hours away from home and your next dose.  The beauty and devastation of this story will remain with me for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Suicide and Sexual assault

muffmacguff's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I read this because I LOVED the miniseries. Ultimately, I prefer the miniseries to the book - the ways the stories diverged I almost always preferred the show’s choices to the book’s. Maybe it’s because I saw the show first, who knows? But the book is still terrific. It’s also more melancholy, I think - you get more of a sense of how hard the years between when the story starts (year zero or whatever) and the “present” (year twenty) have been. The book also has more of an interest in recreating society and bringing back what’s been lost, a theme the show diverged from a lot I think. Anyway I look forward eagerly to reading more Emily St. John Mandel in the near future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, Violence, Death of parent, Child death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

astridrv's review against another edition

Exquisite writing, a real page turner, neatly done. The author successfully made me marvel at the wonderful improbability of our lives. And the theme of fame and what remains of the narrative of our lives was a smart choice too. A well executed book that was a delight to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Religious bigotry

Minor: Death, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Suicide, Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Sexual assault