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A review by kaelaceleste
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
3.0
I wanted to like this more than I did...but I did enjoy it.
I loved the descriptions of the pandemic building up, the decline of civilization and the slow realizations everyone made as it got serious. I imagine it hit differently having read it in our current position than if I had read it a few years ago.. but I digress. Anyway I thought all that story building and detail was really well done and interesting. The writing was also really beautiful overall, it really painted the picture well of what was going on and I enjoyed that quite a lot.
Some of the characters I liked but others I didn't really care about at all/forgot who they were? I also didn't love how it jumped around timelines and didn't really get the point of doing that. I think that's a me problem though because it seems like most people did like that..? idk.
I liked the Symphony a lot, wish we could've delved more into the Prophet and what was going on there. I don't know. Maybe it's because the last book I read about a pandemic was literally thousands of pages longer, but this just felt a little half baked and underdeveloped. Some characters felt a little like throwaways and I didn't know who I should be invested in, even by the end. I don't often feel like books could have been a little longer but in this case I do think it could have helped.
I'm curious to watch the HBO series now and see how they adapt it!
I loved the descriptions of the pandemic building up, the decline of civilization and the slow realizations everyone made as it got serious. I imagine it hit differently having read it in our current position than if I had read it a few years ago.. but I digress. Anyway I thought all that story building and detail was really well done and interesting. The writing was also really beautiful overall, it really painted the picture well of what was going on and I enjoyed that quite a lot.
Some of the characters I liked but others I didn't really care about at all/forgot who they were? I also didn't love how it jumped around timelines and didn't really get the point of doing that. I think that's a me problem though because it seems like most people did like that..? idk.
I liked the Symphony a lot, wish we could've delved more into the Prophet and what was going on there. I don't know. Maybe it's because the last book I read about a pandemic was literally thousands of pages longer, but this just felt a little half baked and underdeveloped. Some characters felt a little like throwaways and I didn't know who I should be invested in, even by the end. I don't often feel like books could have been a little longer but in this case I do think it could have helped.
I'm curious to watch the HBO series now and see how they adapt it!