The Year of the Flood

Not as good as Oryx and Crake. I found that switching between two main characters took me out of it. It's a bit odd to have one of them narrated in first person, and the other in third person. I don't think it serves any great purpose, and it only caused me to have to adjust every time the perspective changed.

My biggest problem with it is that all the minor characters that Jimmy knew and met independently in Oryx and Crake are shown to have a history together in The Year of the Flood. It was too much of a coincidence and made it seem arbitrary.