Reviews with content warning for Suicidal thoughts - The Handmaid's Tale

A lire absolument !
L'histoire est dense et absolument prenante, on ne peut que s'y plonger entièrement, même si l'univers développé est dérangeant et inquiétant.

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lily_kruse's review against another edition

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dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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megb64's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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itsradsmads's review against another edition

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dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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alexander1776's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Just sensational.

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bookish_bry's review against another edition

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dark 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? Yes

3.75

This is a difficult book to rate. I liked it well enough, though it was a bit slow. The narrator had a pretty good voice and I didn't find her annoying even if I disagreed with her a lot. Honestly, it was good that she wasn't a perfect person. At the same time I struggled to really get into the book and plot. I would have liked to have seen a little more about our narrator from before as we only got brief flashes. I feel like that would have cemented her personality and its changes in my mind a little better.

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moonlitstardust's review against another edition

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dark inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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yonireadss's review

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challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.5

An amazing book that felt so realistic. As you’re reading you can see how this can become a possibility especially as we seem to have gone backwards in womens rights to autonomy. I liked the narrative style and the way she would tell us what she wanted to and felt was important. This helped to make the story seem even more real. The pacing of the book was quite slow and at times I did find myself loosing interest at parts where it seemed unnecessary information, but I can see how it was all important. The way lines from the bible is used to justify the system in Gilead was petrifying. I am still confused about how everything was run but due to the narrator of the story it makes sense as to why we don’t fully understand. I loved seeing things from the narrators perspective as it felt as if I was there and I was discovering the mysteries as they were revealed by her and too her. I really did like this book but I think because of the pacing of the book it took me forever to read.

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