/lit/ - Literature

>inb4 woman author rape fantasy not real SF/F
Just finished The Testaments and it's very middle-of-the-road for me, doesn't really expand the dystopian world vividly illustrated by the original, similar to the 2nd and 3rd seasons of the tv show in that regard--the sole compelling feature of the story is to see how Aunt Lydia and Offred's daughters' stories conclude. Wasn't a fan of Aunt Lydia being anti-Gilead all along, nor the YA bits with Daisy/Nicole. The Agnes chapters were the best IMO coming from the viewpoint of someone growing up in Gilead. Other gripes being the optimistic tone of it all, regardless of it being in its own cannon from the original and the tv show, and all the lame worldbuilding "econowives" "microdot" "Pearl Girls" terminology that seems half-baked yet are thrown around on every page, weak compared to the rich biblical elements of Gilead introduced prior. My favorite thing about it was just having different perspectives of women, the crutch of the handmaidstaleverse, and their different origins in society, contrasting chapter-to-chapter, a good successor to Offred's personal accounts and the written style of the original.

If anyone in this general gave enough of a shit to read it, what did you think? Besides that Margaret Atwood clearly wants to fuck Garth Brooks, of course.