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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
tense
medium-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:
Complicated
What would the consequences be if creepy Evangelical Christians would rule a significant part of the world?
Deliberately written without long-winded explanations on societal structure (which I hated so much about Orwell's 1984), this is only 1story on 1 woman's life and her confusion on a changing world.
Deliberately written without long-winded explanations on societal structure (which I hated so much about Orwell's 1984), this is only 1story on 1 woman's life and her confusion on a changing world.
uncomfortable but SO good. a classic dystopian, easy read, and doesnt follow the typical story arc which I love.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
WTF. Like legit, what the actual... That ending was so bad. Ok, restart. This book is very influential. This changed my views a lot. This may be so far blown out of proportion of today's society, but it's not 100% unrealistic. Yeah, that'll most likely never happen, but today's society shares some values with the before in this book. Oh and I was on a Beyonce and Rihanna marathon while reading this so, I wasn't really focused.
“Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse for some.”
That quote from the Commander hit like a gut punch—and stayed there.
Originally published in 1985 but remains hauntingly relevant. Margaret Atwood has insisted that this isn’t speculative fiction, but a reflection of real-world history and its consequences. Everything in Gilead has actually happened somewhere before. The roots are chillingly familiar: the Salem witch trials, authoritarian regimes, and the constant policing of women’s bodies and identities.
In Gilead, women are stripped of autonomy and erased—literally. We never learn Offred’s real name. She exists only as property: “Of-Fred.” Her erasure is the cost of survival in a world that weaponizes religion, climate disaster, and patriarchy.
Reading this now—against the backdrop of modern-day threats to women’s rights, climate change, and systemic oppression—feels less like dystopia and more like a mirror. The scariest part?
The complicity.
And that ending!? What happened?
That quote from the Commander hit like a gut punch—and stayed there.
Originally published in 1985 but remains hauntingly relevant. Margaret Atwood has insisted that this isn’t speculative fiction, but a reflection of real-world history and its consequences. Everything in Gilead has actually happened somewhere before. The roots are chillingly familiar: the Salem witch trials, authoritarian regimes, and the constant policing of women’s bodies and identities.
In Gilead, women are stripped of autonomy and erased—literally. We never learn Offred’s real name. She exists only as property: “Of-Fred.” Her erasure is the cost of survival in a world that weaponizes religion, climate disaster, and patriarchy.
Reading this now—against the backdrop of modern-day threats to women’s rights, climate change, and systemic oppression—feels less like dystopia and more like a mirror. The scariest part?
The complicity.
And that ending!? What happened?