Jux - Your wish is ,my command
Here is my review of Station 11 from a 50 Book Challenge in 2015:
Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
Well, this was very disappointing. Not that I held such high expectations for (1) a 1st book, that was (2) written by a woman, and (3) was much raved about by several friends who never read sci-fi and instead usually read "women's contemporary fiction". I can only imagine that people who have adored very weak sci-fi like Never Let Me Go might like this book. Or those who have never read any sci-fi.
It was disjointed, devoid of a real plot (let alone an engaging and/or clever one), improbable, and with complete lack of worldbuilding. A viral flu kills off most of the world's population and the the ones left alive somehow manage to find food, shelter, and clean water very easily which leaves them free to procrastinate and whine all day long. That's pretty much all the book talks about anyway.
None of it made much sense. A viral infection that becomes symptomatic in several hours and kills in a day is the easiest disease in the world to contain, since it would burn itself off very quickly. Just broadcast everyone to stay indoors for 1 day - what seems to be the problem?
The post-apocalyptic world rings completely false, as well. All of it falls apart too quickly, and the author has given no thought to what such a world of few survivors would actually be like. "Schools" where kids are taught about the lost world and its comforts made me laugh. Surely, you would try to preserve knowledge of math, chemistry, physics, biology etc rather than stories of past comforts.
I could write more, because there really was a lot wrong with this book, but I think I've spent enough time on it.