Sea of Tranquility

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Emily St. John Mandel: Sea of Tranquility (2022, Pan Macmillan)

224 pages

English language

Published April 21, 2022 by Pan Macmillan.

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ISBN:
978-1-5290-8349-1
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Enjoyable, even once you've guessed how it’ll all go down

I liked it because it was well written and short. Longer would have been boring, shorter would have cut too much. I wonder how the author's experience during the pandemic influenced the Last Book Tour Before the End of the World chapter (at least one discussion in the book was real—but from 2015). I liked this book very much, but I liked Station Eleven better, hence the 4 stars.

Fun, lightweight

A breezy, fun(ish, given some of the subject matter) read. The resolution of the book hinges, somewhat, on a twist that is revealed near the end, and I must confess that I was finding the book far more satisfying up to the point that the twist was revealed. It just felt a bit too “plotty” to me in a book that otherwise revels in nice details.