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drraytay's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Death of parent
liesbethvv's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-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
4.0
This was my first foray into dystopian literature and my heart was heavy with anticipatory dread. It shouldn’t have been. This was by no means a light read, but I was on the edge of my seat, wanting to know the paths of the main characters after a virus wiped out the majority of earth’s population. It rang close to home, with the panini still going strong, but it somehow also managed to be just a little hopeful. Not a lot, but you can find some meaning, connection and humanity hidden in the war zone that is planet earth after a disaster. Plus, the book has the added bonus (to me personally) of having the ‘characters linked by objects’ trope that I love. Would recommend!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Death of parent and Religious bigotry
Minor: Rape and Child death
hkropp77's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
fast-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 so amazingly intertwined. My favorite part is that it’s told pre and post pandemic.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Murder
jenbosen's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Death
Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Murder
Minor: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Rape, Medical content, and Suicide
kinomatica's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-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? It's complicated
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death, Medical content, Death of parent, Violence, Terminal illness, Suicide, and Murder
Moderate: Religious bigotry, Rape, and Gun violence
Minor: Infidelity
grimviolins's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Murder, Gun violence, Grief, Death of parent, Death, Child death, and Adult/minor relationship
Moderate: Violence, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping
Minor: Rape and Panic attacks/disorders
lauhiggs's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75
Station Eleven is set in a post-apocalyptic Canada and America. A virus has swept through the world, taking people’s lives at an alarming rate. The world starts shutting down, electricity goes, phone signal goes. It swaps between pre and post pandemic life. Following a cast of characters who’s lives dramatically change from the life they once knew.
I raced through the beginning of this book. I loved the sections about Arthur and Miranda’s relationship. Miranda, an introverted artist who just wants to create. She doesn’t care if her work is seen it sold by anyone but herself. Arthur is your typical “successful actor”, several relationships with multiple wives, lots of money, lavish lifestyle. The parts I liked the most of this book were the parts before the pandemic.
The book also focuses on a travelling Shakespearean theatre group, navigating their new world and bringing plays and music they love to audiences all over Canada and America. I think these sections of the book could’ve been a lot more compelling. It felt like nothing was happening then something happened and it was wrapped up too quickly.
This book was hugely out of my comfort zone, so maybe it just wasn’t for me.
I raced through the beginning of this book. I loved the sections about Arthur and Miranda’s relationship. Miranda, an introverted artist who just wants to create. She doesn’t care if her work is seen it sold by anyone but herself. Arthur is your typical “successful actor”, several relationships with multiple wives, lots of money, lavish lifestyle. The parts I liked the most of this book were the parts before the pandemic.
The book also focuses on a travelling Shakespearean theatre group, navigating their new world and bringing plays and music they love to audiences all over Canada and America. I think these sections of the book could’ve been a lot more compelling. It felt like nothing was happening then something happened and it was wrapped up too quickly.
This book was hugely out of my comfort zone, so maybe it just wasn’t for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Child death, Medical content, and Abandonment
Minor: Child abuse
maddiebusick's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
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? Yes
3.75
I liked it overall, I wish the ending was stronger for the characters in year 20. It felt really tense and suspenseful for most of the book but the final scene with the prophet just didn’t do it for me for whatever reason, I think maybe it was slightly rushed.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Medical content, Murder, Pedophilia, Suicide, and Violence
Minor: Rape and Sexual content
_fallinglight_'s review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
Only stuck with it to the end bc I found out there's going to be a limited tv series and I wanted to see why people think so highly of this book and I'm completely at a loss bc I DON'T GET IT. Easily one of the worst decisions I've made reading wise. It's got a huge Stephen King vibe except this book is so boring it's criminal! It's the end of the world through the eyes of privileged, first world middle-upper class people that I didn't give one f%ck about. (which is probably why this book and now many dystopias have me side eyeing them bc I read a tweet (can't find it anymore and don't remember the author:( some while ago that said dystopias are basically white and/or privileged people's fears of things to come that actually have been the reality for colonized, poor and disadvantaged Black and POC for hundreds of years. I honestly hadn't seen it that way and well now I'm having difficulty with these books especially with this one that was so bad!) It was aiming for some grand scale philosophical poignancy that I'm most likely too dumb to get or it was such a fail on the author's part bc this book is a colossal waste of time. I hated it.
The only parts I can't hate bc they were kinda decently done were Jeevan's subplot and the fallout of the pandemic which was so eerie to read right now. But everything else was atrocious. The characters are not interesting. They are flat and lifeless as hell I didn't care for any of them at all. The prophet thing was added to shit on religion only bc it didn't add much else and was easily dismissed like nothing. And what was that about referring to most of the characters by the instruments they play? The few ideas or subplots that might have flourished this book were lackadaisical and left incomplete. But what honestly bugged me the most was how improbable everything felt to me. Not the disease or whatever but the aftermath. This book basically treated humanity like unthinking husks who will just sit by and let everything rot and die bc “omg we no longer have twitter!!! How will we ever be able to communicate and thrive and live without it?!?!?” Which makes this book annoyingly very fiction and to me very unrealistic in the human ingenuity aspect and not what I signed up for. (ok so it didn't want to be a hopeful book for the most part but girl, humans are stubborn and really do think and create and recreate even the worst of people. Unless of course it was aiming at critiquing our dependence to technology and that we fell away from our hunting-gathering roots and capitalism has us f*cked up but I don't think that's what she was going for lol)
I thought I was gonna be in my feelings reading this, the characters and plot were gonna feel surreal bc hey! I'm in the middle of a pandemic too and well...Just not a good book for me. I honestly can't believe this is gonna have a tv adaptation.
The only parts I can't hate bc they were kinda decently done were Jeevan's subplot and the fallout of the pandemic which was so eerie to read right now. But everything else was atrocious. The characters are not interesting. They are flat and lifeless as hell I didn't care for any of them at all. The prophet thing was added to shit on religion only bc it didn't add much else and was easily dismissed like nothing. And what was that about referring to most of the characters by the instruments they play? The few ideas or subplots that might have flourished this book were lackadaisical and left incomplete. But what honestly bugged me the most was how improbable everything felt to me. Not the disease or whatever but the aftermath. This book basically treated humanity like unthinking husks who will just sit by and let everything rot and die bc “omg we no longer have twitter!!! How will we ever be able to communicate and thrive and live without it?!?!?” Which makes this book annoyingly very fiction and to me very unrealistic in the human ingenuity aspect and not what I signed up for. (ok so it didn't want to be a hopeful book for the most part but girl, humans are stubborn and really do think and create and recreate even the worst of people. Unless of course it was aiming at critiquing our dependence to technology and that we fell away from our hunting-gathering roots and capitalism has us f*cked up but I don't think that's what she was going for lol)
I thought I was gonna be in my feelings reading this, the characters and plot were gonna feel surreal bc hey! I'm in the middle of a pandemic too and well...Just not a good book for me. I honestly can't believe this is gonna have a tv adaptation.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, and Suicide
Minor: Death of parent
kallan's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, and Violence