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

3.0

Unlike Oryx and Crake which leads you to think deeply about the narrative and context, the year of the flood is more about world building and experimental story telling. Of course Atwood is always a genius and the story was interesting and good but it was different. There are two main narrators, time switches throughout and so does the perspective from first to third. This book is heavy handed in religion whereas Oryx and Crake was more of a discovery and philosophical questioning of ethics, morals and the evolution of humanity. If you’re more interested in the moral twists and mysterious storytelling of oryx and crake, you won’t find that here. What you will find is a story with characters and plot and twists. It isn’t what I expected but I enjoyed it all the same. Just wish I hadn’t gone in with expectations that it would be somehow more in the style of oryx and crake.