Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

68 reviews

rosemary_for_remembrance's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide, Murder, Ableism, and Kidnapping

bluejay21's review

adventurous dark hopeful sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, and Murder

undecidedpersonality's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Terminal illness, Animal cruelty, Grief, Gun violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Pedophilia, and Body horror

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Alcohol, Drug use, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual content

sidhe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Violence and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual violence, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

This book deals graphically with the impact of a global pandemic so you may not feel up to it in the current context.

eharms3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Terminal illness

Moderate: Child abuse and Religious bigotry

eleanorvancestan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

My favourite book of the year and one of my favourites ever. If i could rate this any higher I would. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Grief, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Death

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Sexual assault

the whole book centers around a deadly pandemic and the societal collapse that followed. Could hit close to home after Covid 19

beereads27's review against another edition

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Death

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Suicide, Rape, and Pedophilia

raptorq's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

hellavaral's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Suicide, and Grief

memento_morri's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Station Eleven is one of my favorite books of all-time. I read it for the first time 6 years ago and since have read it at least 4 times. Emily St. John’s prose is beautiful, and the way the stories of all of the different characters weave together to spin one cohesive tale is amazing. 
This book is a perfect example of how our lives are woven together. How the little things you do or say might have a huge impact. And despite taking place in what could be considered a post-apocalyptic world, this books is far from hopeless. There is always hope to be had, and this books proves it. From the quote on the wagons of the Traveling Symphony to the very end of the book, there is hope everywhere. 
Also, the writing of the book is amazing. This might be the best example of prose as pure art I have ever seen. There are so many scenes, phrases, and quotes that stick in my brain, even months or years after reading this book. (In fact, I am heavily considering getting a quote from this book as a tattoo.)
My words don’t do this book justice. Please just read it for yourself. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Terminal illness

Minor: Death of parent and Violence

I mean, it does deal with a disease that wipes out most humans on Earth. Even having read it before it made me a bit anxious reading it again in early 2020. While description of the actual suffering of those infected is not graphically described, there is a lot of mentions of death and the devastating effects of this disease.