- Title: Oryx and Crake
- Author: Margaret Atwood
- Borrowed from DC Public Library
- Started: 6/27/10
- Finished: 6/30/10
I really enjoyed 9/10ths of this book. Such a fun end of the world/last man on earth (well, kinda) story. The flashbacks, the believable bioengineering disasters... this almost entirely a ton of fun. But the ending? That was terrible. Yes, there is a sequel of sorts, and I might even read it, but I want books to stand on their own and the ending of this one did not, at least for me.
Still my overall impression is favorable. I had such a hard time putting the book down, stayed up too late each night reading. I really thought it was going to turn out that Oryx wasn't real, that she'd been created by Crake based on the image both Crake & Snowman had seen as teens. I was disappointed to find out that wasn't the case. But again, a real page turner. I'll probably give a few of her other books a chance now.
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