This will mostly be a spoiler-free review, unless you haven’t read The Handmaid’s Tale. So to say that I wasn’t looking forward to this book at all is to undersell how unnecessary I felt like this book was going to be. I have some significant issues with the television show because for me, it sheds light on what felt like purposeful shadow within which the original novel kept the narrative. The original novel was a collection of found tapes secreted away and found later, now being studied by a collective of historians at a conference. We are witness to Offred’s […]

First, let me say that I devoured this book in one day. No matter it’s faults, and it does have them, this is obviously an extremely propulsive book. I couldn’t put it down. Despite it being a giant hardcover, I was carrying it with me everywhere around the house, even when it was inconvenient and even uncomfortable to do so. It’s been a long time since I spent hours doing nothing but just reading, but I spent basically a day reading this and the new Becky Chambers (To Be Taught, If Fortunate). This is, as is obvious from the title […]