So a couple
of months ago, I was browsing in a bookshop and I found the new David Mitchell
book that had just been released, The
Bones Clock, which excited me because I enjoyed Cloud Atlas because it was engaging and thought provoking. However, when I got to the till, I started to
have a conversation with the young woman serving me about David Mitchell and
other books both of us have read (yay! Bibliophiles together) and she
recommended Station Eleven to me because
it was different yet something I could find interesting because it was in the
same field as David Mitchell's books in a way and now that I have read it, I can
understand why she recommended it to me.
Station Eleven is the fourth novel from Emily St. John Mandel and is an interesting trip into a post-apocalyptic world which flits between various moments in time, prior to an outbreak of a pandemic that wiped much of the world, during the outbreak, and a number of years after the outbreak after civilisation has crumbled. It's a different take on the post-apocalyptic/dystopia fiction we have out because it shows the fall of civilisation as well as the normal aftermath.
Station Eleven is the fourth novel from Emily St. John Mandel and is an interesting trip into a post-apocalyptic world which flits between various moments in time, prior to an outbreak of a pandemic that wiped much of the world, during the outbreak, and a number of years after the outbreak after civilisation has crumbled. It's a different take on the post-apocalyptic/dystopia fiction we have out because it shows the fall of civilisation as well as the normal aftermath.
Rating: 10
Recommended To: Post-apocalyptic fans
Favourite Characters: Jeevan - understand his motivation throughout the book; Kirstin - interesting
Favourite Part: "What a terrible time that was," Clark said softly to an imaginary Robert, practising for the future.
"Awful," Imaginary Robert agreed. "Remember those days when you were in the airport, and I didn't know where you were?" - Page 240
Good Points: How this random group of people is linked; the flitting between different times; different from other post-apocalyptic books
Bad Points: More could have been heard from the prophet
Recommended To: Post-apocalyptic fans
Favourite Characters: Jeevan - understand his motivation throughout the book; Kirstin - interesting
Favourite Part: "What a terrible time that was," Clark said softly to an imaginary Robert, practising for the future.
"Awful," Imaginary Robert agreed. "Remember those days when you were in the airport, and I didn't know where you were?" - Page 240
Good Points: How this random group of people is linked; the flitting between different times; different from other post-apocalyptic books
Bad Points: More could have been heard from the prophet
