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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

243 reviews

deathmetalheron's review

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adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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lilbil's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Living in a post-COVID world, this book probably hits different than it did when first published and probably should have considered that before picking it up. It gets kind of intense with the lived experience we do have, even if it wasn’t quite as dramatic. 
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jordanmpearsall's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging 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? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Man, I really love Emily St. John Mandel. She has such a recognizable voice and paints such a vivid, emotional picture. I don’t know if this was extra triggering because of us living through a pandemic, but I think this will stick with me forever. Highly recommended reading.
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shelbysavagegibson's review against another edition

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dark hopeful inspiring medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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literelli's review against another edition

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dark reflective slow-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

5.0

Beautiful, horrifying
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anna_pardo's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark hopeful sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Terrible decepció... M'ha agradat, però sense res especial.

La part apocalíptica trobo que està força ben desenvolupada, sobretot tenint en compte que es va escriure abans de la pandèmia. Les diferents actituds d'enfrontament a la situació dels personatges m'han semblat molt creïbles, i la velocitat en que tot se'n pot anar en orris també.

La part post-apocalíptica m'hauria d'haver agradat més. Trobo que el missatge hopepunk, més evident sobretot al final, no casa amb certes trames a les que inicialment s'hi dona molta importància.

Però el conjunt, no m'ha funcionat. No he entès massa perquè l'autora decideix centrar-se en certs personatges i certes històries, i els salts entre les diferents línies temporals i protagonistes també semblen bastant aleatoris i despenjats del que està passant al nivell principal.

Una llàstima, té molt potencial.
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karlin0336's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

This book is really eerie after having gone through the COVID-19 pandemic in our lifetime.  Never really felt a connection with any of the characters, but the book was very well written and engaging.  Bet it'd be even better on a reread.
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justagremlin's review

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dark emotional reflective 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

2.5

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wrenlex's review against another edition

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adventurous reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

Interesting to read after living through covid. I think that the way all the plot lines interact is really interesting, and I like how it slowly comes together.

I kinda wish that Jeevan had more plot relevance? It’s a little odd that despite his significance at the start he kinda hardly is mentioned later on.
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penrodkatie's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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