A review by frenchtoast_n_books
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

4.0

If religious extremism was paired with extreme gender roles, bigotry, and Puritan lifestyles were forced down modern-day American's throats with the punishment of death, you have our protagonist's new normal. Society is very different for our unnamed protagonist. She is a handmaid, a fertile woman placed into a home for the sole purpose to get pregnant and have a child for the homeowners to call their own. She remembers how it once was. She had a husband and daughter, but not anymore they were taken from her and now she is property. She does what she can to survive and live and hope for a better day.

I loved this book overall but I disliked the inconsistent punctuation. The characters were also one dimensional except for the protagonist as the narration spends very little time on anyone other than her.

This is great source material for the show and the show couldn't have happened without it. However, this is an example that I seldom have where I think the show is better. Please lower your pitchforks now.