author: margret atwood
completion date: 01/09/10
method: libraried
i really loved oryx and crake. i thought it was a fabulous post-apocalyptic novel because we weren't just flung into the apocalypse, we were warmed up to it because the past and the present were mashed up. in year of the flood we have more of a linear story, but following the paths of two woman as they join and separate.
i loved how this novel was really just another perspective on the apocalypse. it didn't take place before or after but it made me really really want to read oryx and crake again because the two are so perfectly interwoven. also it totally stands on its own as a novel. the connections are there because they are based around the same characters but it doesn't feel entirely like a companion novel. you could read oryx and crake afterwards and be happy about it. the connections are really well thought out, almost in a way that points out what a small world it is that ren could be amanda's best friend and they both could have dated jimmy. of course thats possible and the way that atwood writes it makes sense. it doesn't feel outlandish at all.
one of my favourite additions was the cult that ren and toby came from and the poetry that divides each of the chapters. the gardeners are waiting for the waterless flood. and we never know if the adams and eves survived but it seems possible. the adams and eves were prepared. but could they have been prepared for this? does a virus count as a waterless flood?
i need to read oryx and crake again, but now i'm afraid that after i read it i'll want to read this again...
xo-ellebee
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