A review by tacochelle
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

challenging dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Finally read this for the first time, and it's alright. Remains relevant now more than ever, to a certain extent. It is very much white feminism only, with all the minorities written out of the narrative with a few sentences. All black people shuttled out to one of the Dakotas, Indigenous people are slaughtered, the Jewish kinda got a choice to leave for Israel but not really. To be fair, if we're going with the idea that the far right evangelicals are orchestrating this takeover of America, that absolutely tracks. It's still a noticeable absence in the narrative.
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