Tournament of Books discussion

Space to discuss the Zombie round 2, Mar 30:
tbd vs. tbd

"expertly assembled" feels like the perfect description for Sea of Tranquility

Lark wrote: ""expertly assembled" feels like the perfect description for Sea of Tranquility"

I agree! It felt bloodless to me.

It's one of the few books I've read that I think would have been better twice as long, with more development of the characters...In other words, more like Station Eleven or The Glass Hotel. I enjoyed the read, but I so much wished it had been fleshed out more, I felt like it was over before it had even started. Unlike SE's waves and drops it was all little emotionless blips between timeframes, like a kiddie coaster...formed a nice loop, but in the end went nowhere.

It did feel a bit bizarro world to see "expertly assembled" and "persuasively written" presented as reasons to NOT pick a book.

i really did not like Sea of Tranquility and neither did the 4 members of my book club who were in attendance for our SoT meetup. I don't get the hype.

Elizabeth wrote: "It's one of the few books I've read that I think would have been better twice as long, with more development of the characters...In other words, more like Station Eleven or The Glass Hotel. I enjoy..."

Elizabeth - I could have wrote what you have here. I completely agree.