
clementine
Written on Jul 9, 2019
I thought this was a more compelling narrative than Oryx and Crake, which just felt a little unfinished to me. The characters were definitely more interesting, as was the focus on the environmentalist religion, which had a robust theology. The ultra-capitalist dystopian world on the brink of environmental disaster is pretty much believable. This did start lagging for me in the middle, and I'm just still not totally convinced. I don't know what it is, but there's something about this series that I'm not connecting with fully. Maybe it's just that I always think Atwood is at her best when she's meticulously deconstructing women's relationships with the world as we know it, which makes something like this seem like a waste of her talents, no matter how competently-done.