Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Very good book. The characters were interesting, and the back-and-forth narration managed to add a lot of mystery and thrill to a fairly simple plot. However, I didn't like the use of the Prophet as the main antagonist. It was just irritating to have someone like him (a religious fundamentalist) given such an important role. We already have too many of those around in the US before the collapse of civilization, so it's annoying to have to deal with another one. The one small consolation is that a few comments by the main characters make it seem that these zealots are very common, and they are basically just a pest, not really that important, so that made Prophet-plot less annoying.

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