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It's not perfect. The escape that takes place in the latter half of the book has a bit of the Keystone Cops about it at the outset and remains equally improbable throughout. And I felt the death of one character was elided, which missed a great opportunity for an emotional connection in a book filled with hard-to-love characters. But I'm not going to nitpick. We wanted to see where Atwood would go with the world she created and she's shown us. I left ''The Testaments'' both unsettled and unrestful ''and'' satiated and satisfied and I think that may well have been the intention.
Of course, recommended. Atwood looks at the relevance of the past, rather than the future, to today in [[Alias Grace]] - a clever, intricate novel with an unforgettable unreliable narrator. [[The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall]] is a rich, heady dystopian novel in which childbirth is discouraged, not celebrated, and women are compulsorily fitted with a contraceptive coil. You might also appreciate [[The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo and Lola Rogers (translator)]].
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