Book Review - The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

This is the kind of book where you come way with more after reading it a second time. The first time I read it, I processed the information but didn't see the little hints here and there that really tied it in with the first book. 

The Year of the Flood is told with 2.5 different points of view. Explanation of the .5 to follow. This book focuses on the lower class, the non-Corp class, specifically the God's Gardeners - a religious group that predicts the "Waterless Flood". 

The two main characters, Toby and Ren, tell their stories separately as they remember their pasts living with the Gardeners and live their present, after the waterless flood. The book is interspersed with speeches given by Adam One (leader of the Gardeners) before, during, and after the flood. (And he is the .5 I referenced.)

Margaret Atwood is my favorite author for a reason and here it is. The way she builds her characters is amazing. Especially women. Toby, who thinks she's weak but never shows it to others. Ren who is childlike and naive but survived even on her own. And Amanda, who shows only strength to other people until the very end of the book. 

The story takes you through more of the aftermath of the flood and introduces more of MaddAddam and its beginnings. It also reveals who the characters were at the end of book one. Needless to say, I have the third and final book with me now and can't wait to read it.