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A review by moshikami
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
3.0
Overall, I really enjoyed this book and devoured it quite quickly. It is well-written with timeline-shifting short chapters in which plot details are scarce, but graphic depictions of Atwood's dystopian speculative world of spliced-animals and casual child pornography and execution watching teens are abundant. Naturally, I was intrigued.
I read on, in hopes of gleaning more information about the world and our three main characters: Snowman, Oryx, and Crake. My curiosity about this new world was satisfied, but I cannot say the same in regards to the characters. Jimmy/Snowman was the most fleshed out, but Oryx and Crake were somehow hollow? It may have been intentional on Atwood's part, but it didn't make them sentimental characters to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
As I was reading this book, I found myself already excited to read the next books in the trilogy. However, at this point I am unsure if I will continue and I may check out one of Atwood's other works instead. I enjoyed the narrative structure and found Atwood to be a terrific writer, but there was something abrupt and unsatisfying about the resolution of Oryx and Crake. I am thankful for the page-turning experience I was able to have, and hope to have more in the future.
I read on, in hopes of gleaning more information about the world and our three main characters: Snowman, Oryx, and Crake. My curiosity about this new world was satisfied, but I cannot say the same in regards to the characters. Jimmy/Snowman was the most fleshed out, but Oryx and Crake were somehow hollow? It may have been intentional on Atwood's part, but it didn't make them sentimental characters to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
As I was reading this book, I found myself already excited to read the next books in the trilogy. However, at this point I am unsure if I will continue and I may check out one of Atwood's other works instead. I enjoyed the narrative structure and found Atwood to be a terrific writer, but there was something abrupt and unsatisfying about the resolution of Oryx and Crake. I am thankful for the page-turning experience I was able to have, and hope to have more in the future.