It actually is a really good book. Like it’s obviously a bit of a feminist story, but it’s told completely sincerely. No girl power shit, a lot of the villains are other sadistic women, and none of the ridiculously hard to believe elements from the tv show like her husband and old roommate running in to each other in Canada happen.
SPOILERS* ultimately a man saves her (probably, the book doesn’t make it clear) and in the epilogue we find out the whole story was like a lecture in a history class and the students kinda laugh off the crazy handmaid era. Super optimistic in a way, and really antithetical to the everything is the end of the world vibe in leftist Internet spaces
Anyone read the book? I remember someone insisted the book was pretty good but it was adapted at the worst possible time.
It actually is a really good book. Like it’s obviously a bit of a feminist story, but it’s told completely sincerely. No girl power shit, a lot of the villains are other sadistic women, and none of the ridiculously hard to believe elements from the tv show like her husband and old roommate running in to each other in Canada happen.
SPOILERS* ultimately a man saves her (probably, the book doesn’t make it clear) and in the epilogue we find out the whole story was like a lecture in a history class and the students kinda laugh off the crazy handmaid era. Super optimistic in a way, and really antithetical to the everything is the end of the world vibe in leftist Internet spaces
Thanks! I’ve heard the book wasn’t bad but this was the worst time to adapt it. I’ll read it one day.