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A tense, space exploration story. A group of six lands on a remote planet for exploration purposes. I really liked the scenes on the planet. The isolation and harsh conditions led to the eerie atmosphere. The main character is Ophelia, a psychologist there to keep everyone sane. But all of them have secrets they are not sharing, especially Ophelia. There are also evil corporations that view the crew as expendable. I enjoyed this.

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3 ⭐ The second book by S. A. Barnes introduces us to Dr. Ophelia Bray. Her specialty is asleep. When people don‘t get enough sleep on spaceships and visiting other planets it could cause them to become self-harm inflicting murderous tyrants. Ophelia wants to make sure this never happens to anyone else again. As the only psychologist who was just embedded on a ship that had recently lost a member, her travel is not going to be easy.

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I alternated between the audiobook and the hardcover on this one. It's a bit slow to unfold, and I wasn't thrilled with some of the character interactions, but overall I liked this novel quite a bit. It's atmospheric and tense, and more like a space story than a ghost story. The blurb on the cover of the Aardvark edition is amusing once one reads the story.

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Live rock and roll last night, a run this morning, live classical (or more accurately Romantic and Modern) orchestral music this afternoon, and now a glass of wine and the tagged spooky book before playing euchre with my little family. A nice, balanced weekend!

This sci-fi/horror story is creepy and atmospheric but the plot dragged along and there wasn't much character development. It's too bad, as the sci-fi elements were interesting and had lots of potential for a great story.

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I thought the book was lackluster. It was way too slow for my tastes. The first half felt more of a data bumb. The ending was alright but very rushed. I think it could have been flashed out more. After reading the entire book, I thought, given Bray's past she was the wrong person for the job. As for the crew's feelings

Ophelia‘s newest assignment is counseling a team that recently lost a member. Only, w/ everybody keeping secrets, & mysterious structures in the distance, things start to go wrong. Horrifically.

After a really slow start, the tensions really built up. The horror element was really well done, but we stayed in Ophelia‘s head too much. & all characters but Ophelia are underdeveloped. With a hugely rushed ending, this left me disappointed.🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑

This was a spooky haunted house in space book. Dr. Ophelia Bray has just been added to the crew when they land on a deserted space station, and things get weird almost immediately 👽
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The protesters outside are getting louder.

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Finally finished this slog of a book at breakfast this morning. Not much happens in the first half, nearly 200 pages. Ophelia Bray, our narrator and psychologist, is a major whiner who tells us every thought she ever had going back to when she was 11. And she never stops…throughout the entire book! Her spaceship lands on a planet where all sorts of havoc with the crew members begins. Happy to get to the end.

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I‘m on planet Lyria 393-C with a crew including a psychologist who wants to keep everyone from thinking suicidal thoughts.

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This is horror and sci-fi/fantasy all rolled in together. A psycho therapist joins a crew on a space mission and then everything goes awry. The Shining vibes for sure.

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Interesting book. It‘s a fun space thriller (I think calling it a horror is pushing it). It definitely went in a direction I was not expecting. The last 100 pgs are super tense.

Once upon a time ERS caused the brutal sickening deaths of 29 people.

Dr Ophelia Bray has devoted her life to the treatment of ERS which causes mental instability & unreasonably violent attacks against others.

Bray‘s supporting a small crew on an ancient abandoned planet. A crew that‘s close knit & not interested in her help. Well not until their pilot is found murdered in ERS fashion or is it …

Who will live? How many will die?

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This Monday finds me again outside our solar system, this time on space station orbiting a planet abandoned thousands of years ago by unknown aliens. 👽 🚀

Is the recent suicide of a crew member due to mental stress or was it murder? A beleaguered psychologist and this reader are trying to find out.

This was a strong outing in atmospheric horror. Good character development, but sometimes the FMC could get a little annoying. There was a strong mood of creepy dread throughout the novel. 4 Stars.
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The September selection for the #LitsySciFiBookClub is Ghost Station. Hope everyone enjoys. Fortunately, my local library has a physical copy. I saw that it is available as an audio book on Amazon but not Kindle Unlimited.
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So bummed to be DNFing this one, but I gave it a long drawn out attempt because I kept putting it down after a chapter. My problem is the main character. She is just a mess, which makes no sense for someone who is supposed to be a mental health specialist. Also I just can‘t believe any of the behaviors of the characters. Oh well.

I just finished. The creepiness and horror slowly builds. This book doesn't make space exploration sound appealing at all. But I really enjoyed the mystery of what was happening and had happened on that planet. And how or if this team survives. It's a pick for me.🤘

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I'm in the mood for a space horror, so I'm starting Ghost Station.

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Book 53📚 3.3⭐️

While I‘m typically not a huge sci-go fan, this one was pretty good! It was giving Leech vibes to me. I wish the ending didn‘t feel so rushed and had a bit more “bang”, but overall I enjoyed the ride!

If you like space settings for your horror, S.A. Barnes has got you. Ghost Station brings you all the bad-flashback, amicrazy, and body-horror vibes as a research team lands on a lifeless planet to take samples. Except maybe it‘s not so lifeless after all. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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I loved this! I didn‘t love it quite a much as Dead Silence but it was a wild, scary ride for sure. If you love movies like Aliens or just space horror in general definitely pick this up! 🌟🌟🌟🌟

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I think Ghost Station was a solid 3 🌟‘s. It took a long time to get to the horror, and it wasn‘t what I was hoping for. I prefer the psychological horror and having a bit more unknown that just scares the hell out of you. Once I got the explanation, my interest just dropped off. It also felt like she copied and pasted the same character archetypes from the last book.

I will say I am loving space horror and would love any recs people have!

I read Dead Silence by this author last year and absolutely loved it. I still did love this one, but it took a very long time to actually get to the horror. Like a good 200 pages in. But once it did, it was amazing. The errieness and creepiness were immaculate. The question is, is everything really happening, or are we just losing our minds? I absolutely loved how everything went down but would have loved for that to be the whole book. 4/5

“Perfectly unsettling. Ghost Station scratches the itch for space horror just right—and doesn‘t shrink from the grisly consequences of exploring the unknown.”
– Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights

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A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence.

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This sci-fi thriller starts out slowly as the technology terms and character histories emerge. Narrator and main character, Dr. Ophelia Bray, is doubly burdened by her past— the wealth & power from her mother‘s side and the dark secrets of her father— which make her determined to put her work into helping. A grieving Research and Extraction team gives her the chance for field work on an abandoned claim planet. But it‘s soon clear all is not right…

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Just finished reading Ghost Station by SA Barnes and it was AWESOME. Twisty story, scary space station, mind-bending situations…I had a great time. The atmosphere was impeccable - I never knew when something might be coming around a corner. Highly recommend for sci-fi horror fans!

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Psychologist Ophelia signs on to a trip to a remote planet in an effort to retreat from publicity around a recent tragedy. She finds the team doesn‘t want her there and it quickly becomes clear that something else is afoot as well. I loved this. Barnes creates great creeping dread that made me not want to put this book down.

Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes is a space horror tale of isolation, cold, and inner turmoil set on a planet with many secrets. But it‘s not just the planet itself that has a story to tell, it‘s each of the crewmates as well. But will they share or will the secrets ruin them all?

This is such an amazing blend of isolation and the need for connection and approval.

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