A review by kivt
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

1.0

picked this up because i’d heard it was the better, less stupid version of oryx and crake. it was in some ways, for example, not having oryx or crake or jimmy as protagonists. there’s also less use of sexual violence and child pornography as desperately edgy set dressing. but some of the really cringey shit was still out in full force-especially the horrible marketing names for everything. i liked the protagonists better. i would have been ALL ABOUT more meticulous descriptions of gods gardeners doing urban homesteading. wish there was more of that and less cheap rape peril.