MaddAddam (MaddAddam #3)

I devoured Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, fascinated with their brilliant and prescient creation of a dystopia in the near future. I was greatly looking forward to MaddAddam but was sorely disappointed in every way. The plot just ran out of steam, dragging on interminably about characters\’ prior lives. It also started to pile up a massive amount of gratuitous violence, repetitive and pointless. I also did not like the two main narrators. They both sounded like very annoying voiceover artists; they probably ARE voiceover artists. The woman reading the part of Toby sounded like one of those treacly female voiceovers in a laundry detergent commercial. The man reading the part of Zeb sounded like the growly, deep male voiceover in a futuristic action movie starring Bruce Willis: \”In a world . . . Where humanity faces extinction . . . One man . . . Can save them . . .\”. That got really hard to take after five minutes or so. My recommendation is if you are hooked by the first two books in the series, check this third book out of the library, or sit and glance through it at Barnes & Noble without buying it. You can speed read the plot to see what happens, whereas with an audiobook you are forced to sit through it.

I\’m a huge atwood fan. her writing is eerily insightful and subtly biting. she is a master at world -building and character development without becoming trite or verbose. I\’ve followed her since the early 90s and love this trilogy. hope she decides to do another because she\’s an incredible storyteller

I read all 3 books in this trilogy and was super excited for this one but by was it slow. Jeb wasn\’t even a main character and neither was Toby so I\’m not sure how they just took over this story but…it was a tough read until the last handful of chapters. The ending was very special and emotional so that made up for some of lag, but overall, this was a book that could have easily been incorporated in on of the other books.

This is the third book in the Maddaddam Trilogy. Most of this book is the backstory of the history of Zeb and Adam One, and how they came to be involved with Crake and Pilar. However, it also tells how Toby trains one of the Craker children, a little boy called Blackbeard, to write, so that he is able to take up the task of writing the history of the Maddaddamites and the Crakers. It also tells how the conflict with the Painballers is resolved. And most surprisingly, it tells how, with Blackbeard as their interpreter, the Maddaddamites and the Pigoons come to an understanding and agree to work together on the hunt for the Painballers and to cease hostilities between each other. Although some parts near the end are sad, the overall tone of the book is hopeful. Great narration.

Absolutely one of the best stories ever. Thank you to Margaret Atwood. Each book better than the one before.

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