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reviewed The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

Margaret Atwood: The Testaments (Hardcover, 2019, Nan A. Talese) 3 stars

Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and now she brings …

Review of 'The Testaments' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I suppose Atwood doesn’t know a lot about China or even the USSR. It baffles me because this book was published in 2019, when the authoritarian control and media propaganda of China reached a new height. No way the overthrowing of Gilead works in real life. The dystopian Gilead is too naive to be enjoyable to read… The writing and the general storyline was boring as well.