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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Interesting to see how this went differently from the Tv show, but overall not very memorable.
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
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
I’m always hesitant about sequels, but this rounds out the Handmaids Tale rather well.
Long but easy to get through with the short chapters. The pacing is pretty good. If anything, the ending maybe a bit rushed, but as I was eager to finish i didn’t mind. Kept everything exciting.
I loved getting a glimpse into Aunt Lydia’s head and seeing how cunning she is. I guess I just love morally ambiguous characters they are just so much more fun to analyze.
Praise be
Long but easy to get through with the short chapters. The pacing is pretty good. If anything, the ending maybe a bit rushed, but as I was eager to finish i didn’t mind. Kept everything exciting.
I loved getting a glimpse into Aunt Lydia’s head and seeing how cunning she is. I guess I just love morally ambiguous characters they are just so much more fun to analyze.
Praise be
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
I loved this book. I couldn’t put it down, finished it in a week. I read the reviews, I get the criticisms - the parts with the teens read like a YA novel, and Jade’s part is pretty cringey. I don’t care, it was a good story. And teenagers are cringey. She didn’t grow up in Gilead, she had really lax hands-off parents, I think her part made sense. The notion of Aunt Lydia being Anti-Gilead from the start seems like a stretch, but then again she wasn’t a major character in the first book. A lot of people wanted more world building not just more of the same, but like, this is what the author chose to write about, boo hoo. Write your own book. For me, being so frustrated at the show and wanting a resolution and wanting a happy ending for June, this story was very satisfying. I still like Atwood’ style, and Aunt Lydia’s parts were so well written and fun to read. I would say this wouldn’t happen in real life, we would stop it before it got too far, but it’s 2025, we have Nazis running the government, and Americans voted for this to happen. And this book was written in 2019; I feel like it’d be more tongue in cheek if Atwood wrote it more recently. Overall, loved the book. I like books with clear happy endings. I hate ambiguous up-for-interpretation endings.
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
medium-paced