The Year of the Flood

This is the second book of the trilogy. The first book, Oryx and Crake, ended abruptly, just as something was about to happen. I had felt cheated - it seemed like a deliberate and artificial cliffhanger. I expected The Year of the Flood to pick up where Oryx and Crake left off, but it didn't. It is set in the same collapsed civilization that we learned about in Oryx and Crake but the story seemed completely unrelated until about halfway through, there is mention of some of the characters from Oryx and Crake. The Year of The Flood is a parallel story. The two converge. The ending of The Year of the Flood is abrupt also, but it does resolves the final scene of Oryx and Crake. It doesn't end in a cliffhanger. The Year of The Flood seems a little better than Oryx and Crake. The last third of the book really held my attention, so I gave it one half more star,. I may get around to reading the final book of the trilogy one of these days, but that remains to be seen.