TheTestaments
Margaret Atwood
4/5 stars
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The Testaments takes place about 15 years after The Handmaids Tale. It centers around the stories of 3 characters, Aunt Lydia, a teenage girl growing up in Gilead, and a younger teenage girl growing up in Canada. The stories intertwine at some point.

The book was a great and fast read for me, but less earth-shattering than The Handmaids Tale.
Of course, it is not fair in many ways to compare the 2, as how could a sequel have the earth-shattering power and disturbing tropes of the first? We have already been exposed to the evil of Gilead, the Sons of Jacob, particicutions, etc, so we know what we are in for when reading the Testaments.

I found that It made me want to re-read the Handmaids Tale, even tho I have seen the Hulu series, I also felt that I could relate to the emotions and feelings of the characters, who were well-written. I just wish the chapters were headed with their names as well as their "subject#'s" because I had a hard time tracking that.

Overall I thought it was a good book although there are a few twists and surprises that are not really all that surprising.