When the "waterless flood" comes, and most of humanity is wiped out by a genetically devised plague, small pockets of humans, mostly those who have been isolated from other human contact, have survived.
This book follows a similar structure to Oryx and Crake, with flashbacks telling the story of Ren and Toby, members of "God's Gardeners", an eco friendly, vaguely Christian cult, who firstly need to find out whether they are the only people left on the planet, and then need to work out how to protect themselves from some of the others who are left.
I read this book directly after I had finished Oryx and Crake, and didn't enjoy it as much as the first book. It was interesting to have new characters to care about, but some of the ways that they intersected with events from the first book felt forced. The third book "Maddaddam", is on my wish list for August.
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