Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel is the author of four novels, most recently Station Eleven (Knopf, September 2014.)
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Emily St. John Mandel is the author of four novels, most recently Station Eleven (Knopf, September 2014.)
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I love a great cover and I feel that this one definitely has one. This novel sounded interesting yet when I first started to read it, I was a bit confused. With alternating time periods and a variety of characters, it took a bit for me to get everything straightened around. As the story began to t...
Thanks to NetGalley and to Picador for providing me an ARC copy of this novel that I freely chose to review. Having read St. John Mandel’s novel Station Eleven almost six years ago, I jumped at the opportunity to read this one. And although the story is quite different, I loved it as well. Despite t...
4.5 starsI may have understood somethings before it was time (don’t go see my guesses in the book updates if you don’t want spoilers) and it felt a little slow at times (maybe because there were so many stories that at the beginning didn’t interlace at all).However, this is all minor in comparison w...
Station Eleven is a book that meanders back and forth through time, providing clues to how each character is linked to the others in the post-apocalyptic world after the rapid and devastating spread of the Georgia Flu. The connections are hinted at and foreshadowed long before many of them are expli...
I can see why some would really love this book. It’s well written in terms of the prose and it is one of those books that has Things to Say. I could not love it, though. This is a post-apocalyptic story that spends the majority of its time looking back to its characters’ lives and the world as it wa...