Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Sometimes slow has great atmosphere, and sometimes slow punctuates the uniqueness of a text. But slow, especially when nothing much happens except alienation on an alien world, dealing with personal ghosts and then the "other", mixing the two up, is either going to be a great hat-trick--or a boring mess.

I'll be honest: for the first 7/8ths of the novel, I was bored. The last bits picked up, but first I had to get there.

Just because it's on an alien world, it doesn't make the novel unique. Dealing with personal issues, without having something profound to say about it, doesn't make for automatically engaging material. Unfortunately, I just felt like I was reading from a checklist of traits she had to deal with, together with a poor little rich girl syndrome, while being picked on by a mean crew.

It may not quite be the case, of course, but it was my impression for most of the novel, and I was hoping for SOMETHING to happen, good or bad. It did, of course, but it didn't fix the underlying slowness.

Alas. It was just okay.


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