The things I liked: Atwood's writing (natch), the chilling plausibility of corporate evil bringing about our demise, Alex the parrot

The things I didn't like: the somewhat dated tech references (as if it were difficult at the time this was written the obsolescence of the CD-ROM), the corporate names (the compound words and capitalizations didn't really make sense), the shallowness of all the characters, and most importantly the underdevelopment of the relationship between Oryx and Jimmy.

As an Atwood fan, I was really disappointed by this book; as a sci-fi fan I was as well. I liked a lot of the concepts presented, but I felt like she could have done a better treatment of this whole book all around. Only her beautiful writing and humor, along with the relevance of the biotech (and its potentially ugly outcomes), save this from a 2-star review.