Station Eleven

I wanted to really like Station Eleven. The premise was right up my alley, a super swine flu called the "Georgia Flu" strikes the earth and kills 99.9% of the world's population. The novel is set 20 years after the plague, and is more of a "cozy apocalypse" novel, there are no roaming bands of cannibal gangs, and the only murder committed during the novel was accidental. This was not the issue for me, one of my favorite novels I have read in the last few years was The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy and it is one of the gentlest post-apocalyptic novels I have ever read.

I found the characters in this novel to be very flat and uninspired. To be perfectly frank I had a hard time telling one character from the other. This posed a problem for me. I did not dislike the novel, it just did not grab me and draw me into the story.

2.5 of 5 stars