This book was so good! I don’t know what I was expecting going in, but as a post-apocalyptic story about science gone awry unfolded before me, I was sucked in.

Having read The Handmaid’s Tale and seeing what Atwood did when taking religious ideas to the extreme, I’m a little embarrassed at how long it took me to see that Oryx and Crake mirrors that but with science and ethics.

Like any good dystopian/post-apocalyptic work, Atwood takes threads of current events and pushes and pushes. Here, the ideas of overpopulation, lacking resources, climate change, and genetic engineering pull and push and she weaves them together so that it feels effortless.

I’m intrigued to read more of this series. Her style is perfection to me.