Well-written, interesting characters. A story where you can’t predict what is going to happen next.

But I didn’t really like it as a whole. It doesn’t feel like it resolves anything for putting you through the journey and ends kind of abruptly after weaving multiple stories together. It felt like none of the characters grew and like Cryptonomicon (which has a similar vibe to it), it felt like the story exists for it’s own sake of telling a bunch of other stories throughout the timeline with a disappointing common thread. The Station 11 subplot seems have no purpose, much like the book itself.

Also I read this during a deadly pandemic... so that may have shaped my opinion.