Title: MaddAddam (MaddAddam #3)
Author: Margaret Atwood
Year: 2013
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Pages: 416
The third and concluding volume of the trilogy beginning with Oryx and Crake. Unfortunately, although each has its cleverness, Oryx and Crake was electrifying and though-provoking, while The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam are average works. Here, a formerly bad-ass female character become a soppy, mooning, and rather inadequate lovesick drudge. The charm is in the telling of stories to the Crakers, and the joke shared between author and reader about how the story of the bygone world and Crake and Snowman is mythologized. It's enough to read it for, but not enough to make this the sort of stellar novel Oryx and Crake was.
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