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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

22 reviews

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Pedophilia, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Child death, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Stalking

whatathymeitwas's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Child death

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Blood, Alcohol, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Animal death, Mental illness, Drug use, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual content

lemonflower's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical trauma, Murder, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Gore, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

readerette's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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

I could not put this down. I was immersed. I've never experienced an apocalyptic story that came so close to feeling real--how things seem like they would really go if something world-ending came to pass. Aside from Part 7 being too long and unfocused for my taste, I loved it all: the writing, the characters, the relationships, the new world that came to be, the little things people remembered or cherished... Just beautiful. She's captured the little world within a world that each of us builds by way of the people we are connected to; the ones we know our whole lives and the ones we meet indirectly through their art or work or or mutual friends; the ones we meet early and the ones we meet later; the ones we lose for a while and the ones we lose forever; the ones who were part of some milestone and the ones who were a constant.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, and Violence

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Blood, Infidelity, Medical content, Pregnancy, Animal death, Death of parent, Murder, Suicide, and Cursing

mondovertigo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Child death, Animal death, Violence, Suicide, Stalking, Rape, Pedophilia, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence

garynoplastie's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Terminal illness, Blood, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Animal death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Grief, Suicide, and Medical content

Minor: Rape

realalexmartin's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Reading this book after being in a pandemic for two years is one way to rehash trauma!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Animal death, Grief, Medical trauma, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Blood, Car accident, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

A content warning about the Pandemic. This is the crux of the novel, so it’s inescapable and all encompassing. The current pandemic can feel the same, so I would exercise caution as to not traumatise yourself because the past two years have already traumatised you enough.

alexeireads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

finished reading on august 26, 2021

i almost gave up on this book last year because i couldnt handle reading a book about a pandemic while i was living through one, but i finally picked it up again a week or two ago and im so fucking glad i did. instead of painfully reminding me that im currently living in a world ravaged by a pandemic, this book made me fall in love with the world; with humanity, with the compassion and serendipity and continuous need to *live* that exists in all of us—“because survival is insufficient.” what a beautiful, beautiful book.

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Terminal illness, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual violence

BIG content warning for pandemic. If you have been having a hard time dealing with grief or other mental health issues related to the COVID pandemic, be careful with this book. In my opinion, it actually helped me cope with the past several months because the last third of the book becomes more focused on hope and human survival and is actually very uplifting. But there are definitely some sections that made me close the book and go "nope. can't read about this, way too real." It was worth it, though.

wordswoods's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This was a ride. 
Station Eleven follows various people throughout the unraveling and aftermath of a worldwide pandemic. We also get flashbacks to their earlier lives. 
Written before the Covid-19 pandemic, some of the things that happen are all too realistic: stocking up on supplies like water, air traffic halting, people not being warned in time but mostly, people knowing about it but thinking it's probably not so bad and continuing their normal lives. 

The big difference, though, is that this pandemic's death rate is estimated to be around 99%. Air traffic never starts back up again and eventually, all power networks, electricity and the internet cease to be. A new kind of survival society unfolds. 

We follow different storylines in the past and present and learn why they are intertwined along the way. 

This novel is a tale of a pandemic gone wrong, a view into a post apocalyptic society, but also a reflection about which things really matter and why. 

You will not be disappointed. And I'm not going on a plane anytime soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Mental illness

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.25

definitely werid to read a book about a flu-like plague... seeing words like unprecedented and hospital wards filling up are low-key very triggering when most of Australia is under lockdown 😬

but this was a good read. I really enjoyed the writing and the different character stories and how they intersected with each other 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, and Violence