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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

113 reviews

jehughes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Rape, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Cursing, and Police brutality

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Grief, Medical content, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Misogyny

Moderate: Death, Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Gun violence, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and War

reddeddy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Classism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Murder, Vomit, War, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Abortion, Antisemitism, Biphobia, and Bullying

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Excrement, Police brutality, Racism, Torture, Trafficking, Alcohol, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, and Pedophilia

booksjessreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

I found I wasn't massively drawn to this book for the first half and struggled to keep picking it up between reads. The world that the Handmaid's live in intrigued me, but Atwood's style of writing was the thing that made me feel slightly disconnected from the novel. 

However, when reaching the mid-way point, I found myself being more engaged in it, mainly influenced by the fact that you work out what the Handmaid's are used for. I have found myself reviewing this at 3.5 stars because I didn't find the book completely engaging. I find the symbolism in this book is more interesting than the book and plot itself. 

But despite having a lower rating, this is definitely something I will re-read because I want to completely and utterly analyse the hell out of it. There is so much symbology and meaning to this text and I want to take my time next time to completely uncover it all. I feel like after, my rating would probably be higher. However, from a first read with not much reading between the lines, this is where I have placed it. I do think it has much potential to be higher as I re-read and analyse the content.

Overall, complicated feelings with this book. However, if you love dystopian fiction, and can stomach the trigger warnings, then I would recommend this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Pregnancy, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, and Rape

Moderate: Death, Miscarriage, Medical content, and Infidelity

Minor: War

sunny_not's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Incredibly brutal and awful. It was emotionally draining to some extent since it was so heavy. Idk if I will read the second book since this was quite challenging. If the questions that are left in this are answered then I might read it. Overall not a good time dystopia of dystopias kind of vibe. Still very thought provoking and interesting, that's why I gave this a high rating however this is nowhere close to being a light read in my opinion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Infertility, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, War, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Child death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Medical content, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

kennie's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Child death, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Body shaming, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Infidelity, Infertility, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Minor: War

violetsonata93's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

Honnêtement, j’ai vu la série télé en premier. L’idée à la base du roman est vraiment brillante et pousse à la réflexion, mais il y a pas mal de longueurs. Je ne recommanderais pas la traduction que j’ai trouvé boiteuse par endroits, je regrette de ne pas avoir commencé directement par lire la version originale. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Death, Violence, Sexual violence, Gun violence, and Suicide

Minor: Torture, Murder, Hate crime, Abortion, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Infertility, Infidelity, and Confinement

ivorynovature's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

There’s very interesting worldbuilding going on here and I especially liked the historian’s little speech at the end, I just ended up wishing the entire time that Moira was the main character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Sexual content, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Sexual assault

Minor: Kidnapping, Abortion, Infidelity, Torture, and War

cupidsarroww's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Abortion, Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Homophobia

malaikawrites's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Rape, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Violence, Miscarriage, Infertility, and Death

Minor: Abortion, Suicide, Infidelity, and Medical trauma