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Under His Eye

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

September 16, 2019 by Classic 2 Comments

Aww. This was so good. I think Atwood did a wonderful job of showing us how Gilead came to be, how it was for those who lived there, and how it looked to others from the outside. Instead of staying with one POV throughout the story, Atwood allows us to to get fully immerse in Gilead via the POVs of a young girl named Agnes, an older girl named Daisy, and the fearsome Aunt Lydia. The character development works for these three characters as well […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, dystopia, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale #2, the testaments

Classic's CBR11 Review No:224 · Genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, dystopia, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale #2, the testaments ·
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