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librarianryan 's review for:
Ghost Station
by S.A. Barnes
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The second book by S. A. Barnes introduces us to Dr. Ophelia Bray. Her specialty is asleep. When people don’t get enough sleep on spaceships and visiting other planets it could cause them to become self-harm inflicting murderous tyrants. Ophelia wants to make sure this never happens to anyone else again. As the only psychologist who was just embedded on a ship that had recently lost a member, her travel is not going to be easy. This book theorizes complications that can arise from sleep status. From being put into a cryogenic sleep for long space trips. Our crew ends up landing on a planet that others have been to, however things are odd. Why are they seeing people that should never be there. Why won’t people just listen to her. And why can’t Ophelia stop re-living the bad things her father did. Is she likely to be the murdering maniacal man that her father was? I liked this book, but it was an incredibly slow start as the world was being built. As we learned about Ophelia and her family and everything that happened. This section of the book felt like it dragged on for ever. When one finally gets to the meat and bones of the action and the horror it goes by in the blink of an eye. And I did like the book I thought the ending was a little lackluster. It almost felt like it ended too soon or like it might be giving itself space for a sequel. I hope not because to be honest I wouldn’t read a sequel.