The handmaid's tale

17.01.2021

The handmaid's tale is the sixth book I read this year. Now what can I really say about it? What did I actually think of it? By the way I'm pretty sure it's a duo logy, so I'll definitely check out the next one too.

Well for starters I was actually quite engrossed in it ever since the beginning (despite my reservations about it at the start, which I must admit DID in fact exist). The book itself is beautifully written, Margaret Atwood is just an incredibly skilled author, who just writes with such ease and talent. I must confess that I searched some of the words in it, even though I consider my English level to be pretty great, some of the words in it are truly difficult, at least for me. I first heard about this book from my English teacher at the beginning of the school year believe it or not, we were talking in class about some great English writers, when she mentioned Margaret Atwood and asked if anyone had read something of hers. After everyone said they hadn't, I told myself that now I just had to (sorry I am just that ambitious) and after deciding on doing this challenge, thought I should give it a try.

Overall the book sets place in a dystopian world, with a totalitarian society where women are basically "trapped" and can't really leave their city because they have the status of property. In order to make the birth rate rise again, all the fertile women are practically forced into sexual "servitude" to get pregnant. The main character is Offred whose real name we don't actually find out in the first book. She is set on surviving the difficult circumstances and do everything in her power to escape this life and fin the daughter that was taken from her, but also discover what has happened to her husband after they were caught trying to cross the border.

Star rating: 4 stars for the lovely way it was written as well as the whole plot and story setting. The cliffhanger at the end truly intrigued me a lot, and you will soon see from me a review on Margaret's next book in this series called "The Testaments".