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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
4.0

I kept vacillating between a 3 and a 4. Probably a 3.5 then, rounded up. I found it well written and liked the format, for the most part, though it deflates some of the tension and meanders somewhat.

There a few instances where it was either obscure or simply didn’t make sense, which would have made it a more solid read. Probably a different vibe with the virus happening right now as well. The characters and prose make it more than worthwhile a few hang ups though.