“Survival is insufficient.”
Read: February 18-23, 2015
Rating: 3 Stars initially, upon review downgraded to 2.5
Stars
Initial Thoughts: Boring
About
Station Eleven tells two stories, woven
together following characters impacted by the life and death of Arthur Leander –
child actress Kirsten, paparazzo turned EMT Jeevan and ex-wife Miranda. Arthur was a famous actor, suffers a fatal
heart attack during a production of King Lear. Shortly after a terrible flu
begins to spread, killing 99% of the population. Arthur falls in and out of love, Jeevan
watches helplessly as the world falls apart and 20 years in the future Kirsten
is traveling between settlements with the Traveling Symphony performing Shakespeare
for survivors.
Review
I am writing this book five weeks after reading
this book and I am at a loss as to what to write. What I do know is that I am
yet again the black sheep amongst my fellow Goodreaders and everyone who I
watch on Booktuber. Many raved about this book and their glowing reviews bumped
this book to the top of my TBR pile. I don’t understand the buzz. While
everyone else has been raving about the hauntingly beautiful writing, for me this
book was a struggle to get through and once I finished this book became
unmemorable. I could not connect with any of these characters. They don’t
really do anything and they are not contributing to a greater plot.
While the premise
of this novel was promising, post-apocalyptic traveling theater group, in this
novel the plague is an afterthought. Instead the book focuses on a Hollywood
actor and the people who came into his life. I want to know how the plague happened
and why it happened, and while I realize that was not the purpose of this book,
I still want to know.
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