MaddAddam

Content Ratings

Moderate Romance

Toby's romantic relationship with Zeb is emotionally central to this volume, including sexual content described with moderate directness; the relationship is one of the novel's primary emotional threads.

Moderate Themes

The novel explores what a new human society might look like when built from scratch, the ethics of mythology-making for a new species, and the difficulty of processing trauma and rebuilding trust after total civilizational collapse.

Moderate Violence

Dangerous criminal survivors pose a violent threat; the novel deals with the aftermath of civilizational trauma and violence referenced from the previous books; direct violence is less prominent than in predecessors.

Synopsis

The trilogy's conclusion follows the surviving human and Craker community as they attempt to build something sustainable in the post-plague world, while Toby tells the Crakers the story of their creation through an evolving mythology, and the human survivors must confront a lingering threat from dangerous survivors. Less apocalyptic in energy than its predecessors but deeply satisfying as a conclusion. The warmest and most hopeful volume in the trilogy.