Reviews

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

soupysammy's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Such an amazing and wonderful way this story goes. Reading about the next part of the story was just everything I had hoped for it felt like. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death of parent, Death, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Religious bigotry

katmindae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Will think about it later but I just find this world so impactful and thoughtful. 

Stakes were interesting. Took me too long to understand who was who and had to look up a quick explanation because I thought everyone was Lydia at different point in her life for a bit.

cmm1392's review against another edition

5.0

I liked Handmaid’s Tale much better, but the follow up was still great.

corinicolebyers's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

lisagriffioen's review against another edition

3.0

This took me sooooo long to finish and it kind of got me into a reading slump

plumdustsuns's review against another edition

Realized the problematic depictions 

ninasbooks57's review against another edition

5.0

This was amazing!! Hard to imagine a future like this but all it takes is someone exploiting power and others shying away from their necessary actions against that group. Silence can be our worst enemy. I wish I had noted the relevance of the image at the beginning of the different sections earlier. That really helped with keeping the characters straight!!

mariahdrew's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

nerdie_kitten's review against another edition

5.0

Powerful and moving... A must read for the people who still follow patriarchal attitude... Yes a feminist read

adrianagoycoolea's review against another edition

3.0

I was hesitant to read this because The Handmaids Tale was just so good that I didn’t want to be disappointed, but these books are very different from one another. It is not a duloagy, but rather two (almost) stand-alone books. The Testaments was written more plainly and wasn’t necessarily the style of book I usually read. I wasn’t super into this book, so I frequently got tripped up with the dual-perspectives but I did enjoy the inside and outside perspectives from each of the characters. It was pretty cliche, but it was still entertaining. I do think the ending was kind of rushed though.