A review by mysticalmegan
Erase Me by Margaret Atwood

4.0

In the third installment in Atwood’s Positron series, Stan finds himself at the mercy of a scary Consilience security team member as a result of his rebellion against the system. Soon he finds himself a pawn in a plot to take down the system. His wife Charmaine, meanwhile, is being held indefinitely in the prison system as a result of her own rebellion. These stories are hailed as a “dark comedy,” which I don’t really understand. I don’t find anything funny about this scenario On the contrary, I always come away from reading these novellas with a sick feeling in my stomach. I am not really sure about the psychology behind my coming back for more considering how creeped out I am about these books, but all I can say is that I have been a big Margaret Atwood fan for a long time and they are just really well written, strangely compelling, and they feed on my conspiracy theory nut tendencies.