Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel is the latest from the author of Station Eleven. Here she continues to write post-apocalyptic, post-pandemic fiction at a time when people have started to colonize the moon. The story moves back and forth through time and posits some mind-bending concepts, yet at the end I found it too sparse and lacking in character development, I just didn’t really care.

I truly loved Station Eleven and have felt only luke-warm about St. John Mandel’s books since then. It is an interesting enough read, sure to please many, but at the end I was left feeling disappointed.