One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theatre troupe known as The Travelling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.
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THE KING STOOD in a pool of blue light, unmoored.- 1
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(@picadorbooks, 1 January 2015, e-book, 384 pages, borrowed from @NACLibraries via @BorrowBox, #POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book where someone dies in the first chapter)
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I read Station Eleven back in 2017 and I really enjoyed it. I loved the TV series and it made me want to revisit the book. There are a lot of similarities between the book and TV series but I was surprised by how many changes have been made. I enjoyed this book quite a bit more the second time around, enriched by seeing the book unfold on screen and the recent pandemic. I read a lot of dystopian fiction and I'm still impressed by the fact this book does something different. I'd recommend this.
