The Year of the Flood

from ethel55

There is no doubt that this a sobering apocalyptic view of some unknown future time, but I think the title was a bit of a misnomer. There is way more than a year covered here and it took me a long time to get into the swing of the story. Many of the early reviews I have read of this book say a pr...

from Kara

This book is completely entwined with Oryx and Crake. Oryx and Crake could stand alone, but this book would be much less effective on its own. All of the tension comes from what you know of the events of Oryx and Crake. Definitely read Oryx and Crake before picking this up. The two books run most...

from mldavis2

Although noted as a sequel to Atwood's Oryx and Crake, this is effectively a stand alone novel in a trilogy of a dystopian society in which man has reached the edge of self-destruction. It involves elements of paranoia, environmentalism, ecology and survival. This is typical Atwood with a few not...

from Alera

Margaret Atwood has a way of writing that always feels more poem than prose, and it works wonderfully in The Year of the Flood. The easy flow in the writing adds another level to the haunted and terrible reality of those who wake to realize they are what is left when the era of humanity ends. Hav...

from Meggo

A follow up to Oryx and Crake, this book is actually a prequel of sorts, that tells the story of the world before the Waterless Flood, in humanity's last gasp before virtual extinction. Dark, in spots, it presents a dystopian view of the future that is still more optimistic than in the Handmaid's...