The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

One of the few cases where I saw the show before reading the book and I really wished I hadn't. The series is far more interesting and put together than the book, as unpopular as it is to admit.

The writing style itself was disjointed and rambling which didn't add to the narrative or mood, instead constantly coming off as wandering and aimless. The bones of the storyline are very sturdy the first couple or so chapters before falling off of a cliff in to a sea of rabid hysteria. Again, if it added to the mood of the work then I would have fit. Atwood tries but it feels like she's trying to hard to fit pieces together and in doing so makes it all artificial.

She tried to mix a decent storyline with her own political hysterics and it turned out to be a mediocre mash. The true pity is that there are plenty of parts of the story where you can really get a feel for Offred and whom she is as a person, moreso than the people and system using her. But it's lost in bad writing structure and forced narrative.

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