MaddAddam

, #3

Deckle Edge, 394 pages

English language

Published Sept. 3, 2013 by Nan A. Talese.

ISBN:
978-0-385-52878-8
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A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers – a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers’ reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is hallucinating; Amanda is in shock from a Painballer attack; and Ivory Bill yearns for the provocative Swift Fox, who is flirting with Zeb. Meanwhile, giant Pigoons and malevolent Painballers threaten to attack.

Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood’s unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world and holds up a skewed mirror to our own possible future.

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4 stars

The final book of the MaddAddam trilogy was a great read, entertaining, but in a way also disappointing. Oryx and Crake was excellent, The Year of the Flood blew me away, and MaddAddam just didn't grab me in the same way as those books.

We're in firm post-apocalyptic storytelling here. Most of the people have been wiped out due to Crake's machinations, and there's just a rag-tag band of survivors from the previous book. MadAddam directly continues the story, with the rescue of Amanda who had been kidnapped by Painballers. From that point on we experience the life of the survivors mostly through the eyes of Toby, but also Zeb, her lover, who tells his story and the origin of Adam One from the Gardener cult. Too much time was spent on his survival story in the woods, and bears, and Toby being jealous of other women, kinda.

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