The Testaments
Fifteen years after The Handmaid's Tale ends, three women narrate how Gilead begins to fall from the inside.
Mood Tense & Suspenseful
Pacing Fast-Paced
Complexity Moderately Complex
Fifteen years after The Handmaid's Tale ends, three women narrate how Gilead begins to fall from the inside.
About This Book
The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want to be kept on edge: propulsive, twisty, and hard to put down. The writing rewards attention without being demanding, a good balance of depth and readability. It moves quickly: once you're in, it's hard to stop. Readers who prefer character depth over plot drive may find it thin.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something tense and impossible to put down, and a read that's fast and propulsive.
What It Explores
The Testaments explores power and ambition and what they cost the people who pursue them, survival and what extreme circumstances ask of people, identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be, and power structures and how they shape individual lives.
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