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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

30 reviews

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Blood, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape and War

Adult/minor relationship warning is partially for a couple who met when one was a minor. Ableism warning is for the trope of a disabled character dying as part of an abled character's story. Colonisation warning is just in case, for discussion of Israel in a normalized light.

larbster90's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Rape, Suicide, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Alcohol

kirame's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-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

5.0

The book is pretty complex. I highly recommend to take notes while reading. Mark characters, their storylines, important events, themes, reoccuring items (for ex. the paperweight). It'll be easier to look back on them (characters often refer to them) and to see how they are conected.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Misogyny, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Rape, Death of parent, and Alcohol

whatathymeitwas's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Drug use, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Car accident, and Pregnancy

liliaweber's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

The threads of different lives are woven together across different eras - in a non-chronological arrangement of chapters that somehow flows beautifully, rhythmically, like a song.

This book is basically a meditation on a quote from Star Trek, which is a mantra often repeated by the characters themselves: "survival is insufficient." It's about why the human need to create art and tell stories is worth braving the danger of an unpredictable post-apocalyptic world. It's also about the choice to let go of what we've lost vs the drive to rebuild it, or how to balance both. I ugly cried more than once.

Three of the main characters are sympathetic, compelling, interesting. If there's any flaw in this book it's that the one character that glues the others together - the first character mentioned in the opening line - is self-centered, boring to read about, and doesn't grow. Defeating the villain is only a small sliver of the story; the main goals of the main characters are to survive a post-apocalyptic world, to uncover missing truth, and to create something worth surviving for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Trafficking, and Alcohol

Murder, killing out of self-defense, and death from natural causes are depicted with some detail and are central to the story. The main villain of the story intends to traffick ("marry") a child but she escapes before he can. Suicide, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence are mentioned, but with very few details.

lemonflower's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

emhunsbaker's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

bibliophilemama's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Infidelity

alexeireads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

5.0

finished reading on august 26, 2021

i almost gave up on this book last year because i couldnt handle reading a book about a pandemic while i was living through one, but i finally picked it up again a week or two ago and im so fucking glad i did. instead of painfully reminding me that im currently living in a world ravaged by a pandemic, this book made me fall in love with the world; with humanity, with the compassion and serendipity and continuous need to *live* that exists in all of us—“because survival is insufficient.” what a beautiful, beautiful book.

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

BIG content warning for pandemic. If you have been having a hard time dealing with grief or other mental health issues related to the COVID pandemic, be careful with this book. In my opinion, it actually helped me cope with the past several months because the last third of the book becomes more focused on hope and human survival and is actually very uplifting. But there are definitely some sections that made me close the book and go "nope. can't read about this, way too real." It was worth it, though.

linaanderson's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Addiction, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Alcohol