A review by ruthrebecca
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

This is a major mashed potatoe book for me and unfortunately it just didn't do it for me. I had to force myself to pick it up and if it wasn't for the book club I might have DNFed. I just felt bored in parts. When we meet the prophet and there's this huge build up of tension it dissipates so quickly. Also, I don't think pandemic books are for me, which isn't necessarily the books fault. But it was a factor that made me avoid picking it up. I don't really get the hype around this book either. Yes it's cool to see how all the characters are loosely connected and how events in the past can shape the future. That came in the last third of the book and was the most interesting. But even still, I don't care about any of the characters (apart from elderly Clark, because he's an old man and I hate the idea of frail old men in an apocalypse). Anyway, I finally read it, it's been on my Goodreads TBR since 2016, so it's finally read!