A review by xenu01
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

3.0

This book had a lot of promise, and Lavie Tidhar clearly had a lot of fun with world-building. And how fun it was to inhabit this fascinating world for a while! Nice also to have a homebase of future-Israel, and to be so diverse. I think I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did, and so after I finished it, which took me a lot longer than usual because I just wasn't driven to read more than a few pages at a time, I think it comes down to this:
This book could either be turned into a collection of short stories or a complete novel that follows just a couple of characters but gets deeply into their lives and subconscious. Instead, it falls somewhere in between, which left me--sad to say--interested but never deeply invested in any of these characters.
I suppose it feels more like Central Station and its environs is supposed to be the main character, but then I don't know if that was fully fleshed out as well.

In any case, this was a unique book to read, and still a welcome addition to the Sci-Fi canon. I am glad to have read it.