2/3 Discussion

[latespring]

Hello Everyone!

If you're checking in, here's the optional discussion post for 2/3 of Station Eternity!

A few reminders:

• This check in is for chapters 10-19, please do not spoil anything further than that!
• Similarly, please remember there may be spoilers in the discussion below
• Our final, and main, discussion will be April 20th!

If you have questions you'd like to submit to the group to discuss, please leave them as a comment on this post, and I'll include them with our final discussion post!

Comments

[sleepypapercrowns]

During the last check-in I was a bit lukewarm about this book and after brief bit of interest I am back at that point unfortunately… when Mallory started to solve the mystery I was genuinely intrigued, I wanted to know what was happening. She was connecting the dots! I was genuinely shocked at the introduction of this drug that can split alien symbionts!

But now we’ve spent another 90 pages just jumping between the different back stories of the survivors? In theory Mallory doesn’t know all of this information we now have so how in the world will this be rectified? Will she just suddenly connect all the dots herself and know or will we regurgitate the same info again when we’re back in her head? Hm.

I am a bit annoyed. I liked spending time in Mallory’s head but now I suddenly have to juggle so many different perspectives again. I always struggle when a book introduces many more pov in the middle of the book, I can’t keep anyone apart! So yeah… I’m not having the best time with this book, sadly. :(

[littlerhymes]

Generally in agreement again! I found some of the new character backstories quite interesting, but in terms of where these were placed in the story I was also quite frustrated. It feels structured quite oddly, not at all like a traditional murdery mystery (which isn't in itself a bad thing, if done well). Just feels a bit fragmented and not building towards anything in particular.