YMMV / MaddAddam

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Did Pilar give the pills to Crake on purpose?
• Badass Decay: Compared to her characterization in Year of the Flood as a fiercely-determined, no-nonsense survivor who seemingly thinks nothing of grabbing a shotgun and pursuing the villains to rescue another woman (at great potential cost to herself), some think Toby suffers from this in the third book, particularly as her previous persona takes a backseat to constant fretting and jealousy over Zeb's whereabouts. Others see it as her being so inexperienced with loving emotions that she's just finding problems and overacting over Zeb.
• Broken Base: There exists two camps of readers: one that thinks that the book brings together the plot threads set up in Oryx and Flood in a good (even great) way, while simultaneously elaborating on a couple of key mysteries set up in the universe. The other camp considers it to be the weakest in the series due to spending the majority of the chapters focusing on flashbacks, sidelining (or marginalizing) both protagonists from the prior books in different ways, and treating the climactic final fight as an afterthought only told about in the Distant Finale.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Jimmy (a.k.a. "Snowman-the-Jimmy") finally returns after being absent from The Year of the Flood, but his character is largely a retread of what he did in Oryx — that is, when he's actually in the plot. Jimmy is sidelined for a large portion of the book due to being in a coma, and when he comes to, his largest contribution to the plot involves seeing the bodies of Oryx and Crake... again, after he already saw them in the first book. Following this, he is fatally wounded moments later while Taking the Bullet for another character, a death that's only spoken about after the fact in the Distant Finale.

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