MaddAddam, a novel by Margaret Atwood

MaddAddam, the last novel in a trilogy of dystopian novels by Margaret Atwood of the same name falls flat on its face

It took me three books to reach this conclusion, and I will give a quick summary of why I think so:

Atwood is not creative enough in forwarding her world.  She is tied to notions like “chat rooms” when they no longer exist in our world in the way she uses them.  She should have exercised her creative muscles and crafted new technological concepts and names.

She fails to provide a compelling sense of character.  She hits the right note on some, but she is so fixated on creating a trilogy, that character development is seldom carried over from one book to another.  Jimmy, for example, is dropped after the first book.  This  makes for two dimensional characters.

For dystopian books, there is little action.  Most of the problem are two “Pain-ballers” a cringe worth neologism, who run amok but are relatively easy to dispatch.

She replaces narrative for long, long dialogues. They are tedious to read.  This further drags down a slow, slow work.