I've been meaning to read this for ages, and I'm glad I finally did. Have devoured it over the last couple of days!

An often disturbing, often sad account of the last (human) survivor of a deliberately-seeded plague and his genetically engineered charges, the replacements for human life. The book jumps back and forth in time between (pre-apocalypse) Jimmy, and his older post-apocalyptic self Snowman. I have to say my sympathies changed as the story went on - in the beginning I much preferred reading about Jimmy, while towards the end I was always waiting for his chapters to finish so I could go back to reading about Snowman.

If I've any criticism it's that Crake never felt like a person to me. More like an idea wrapped in human skin. The Crakers also felt pretty alien, but then again I think they are supposed to.