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adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Terminal illness
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I flew through this book, which means it really captured me but it also left me feeling unsettled. The pandemic hits a little too close but it was thought provoking to ask what does it mean to survive?
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Murder
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Overall a really solid post-apocalyptic book. It’s focused on character development and change as well as the tension of holding onto the past or moving into the future and the divisions it causes. I enjoyed the timeline shifts and weaving of station eleven throughout. There was some unique locations for survival I haven’t seen before, ie the airport, plus the traveling symphony. I wish Jeevan’s was a little more interconnected with the future timeline. The prophet could have been flushed out more and I felt his storyline conclusion was a bit anticlimactic.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Violence
Moderate: Grief, Abandonment
Minor: Gore, Medical content
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Abandonment
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
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
Content Warnings
Minor: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
dark
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry
Moderate: Suicide, Murder
Minor: Sexual assault
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This story revolves around a pandemic that kills 99% of humans and ends civilization, jumping between pre- and post-pandemic times and following various characters who are serendipitously connected. Despite the topic of a pandemic being a bit close to home, I liked the imagination of what a post-civilisation would look like (ways of rebuilding and continuing music and theatre). I also enjoyed the ways the characters' lives were weaved together in mysterious ways, and thought the writing style was really nice
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Suicide
This story revolves around a pandemic that kills 99% of humans and ends civilization, so not for people wanting to escape thoughts of covid!
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment
Minor: Rape, Sexual content
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
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, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Rape