The Handmaid's Tale - Book Review
I've been watching The Handmaid's Tale, and recently noticed it at the Black Friday sale on a bookstore.
The story is very well known by now and happens in a dystopian version of our world where fertility rates kept dropping, and a extremist religious group takes over the US and starts calling itself Gilead. It is told by a Handmaid - a fertile woman who is forced to reproduce for commanders who want to have children.
The story is on most occasions very similar to the series. Obviously the series has a whole lot more room than a single book, so some things change such as more characters, some have more depth, and some who die or disappear have continuing stories in the series.
So the book is good, but that is one of those super rare cases where the TV version is actually better than the book.
Still, pretty entertaining and if I had not seen the series I would just be saying that the book was very good.
The story is very well known by now and happens in a dystopian version of our world where fertility rates kept dropping, and a extremist religious group takes over the US and starts calling itself Gilead. It is told by a Handmaid - a fertile woman who is forced to reproduce for commanders who want to have children.
The story is on most occasions very similar to the series. Obviously the series has a whole lot more room than a single book, so some things change such as more characters, some have more depth, and some who die or disappear have continuing stories in the series.
So the book is good, but that is one of those super rare cases where the TV version is actually better than the book.
Still, pretty entertaining and if I had not seen the series I would just be saying that the book was very good.
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