This is an all-nighter kind of book, very entertaining. About one third in it began to feel a lot like Gone Girl, except the story goes much faster, every character is dubious and everyone is even more twisted, if that’s possible. The book is narrated from the perspective of three women. Rachel Depressed and an alcoholic, in her early 30s, she’s having an awful time trying to move on after her marriage fell apart. She takes the train to London for work everyday, and observes the houses and […]
To be reduced to nothing but a womb…
Great book, but I feel I read it at the wrong time. Synopsis: Offred is a sex slave, pretty much. She tells her story as a Handmaid, a live-in mistress of sorts for high-level Commanders whose Wives are unable to bear children. The story takes place in Gilead, a dystopian United States which has been turned upside down through internal plots (including the murder of the entire congress) and is now governed by an ultra-conservative, highly militarized oppressive government. A theocracy. In a context of […]