A review by deealadwani
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.75

Finally. A great ending that is full of hope and dreams for women. An ending that makes you feel that anything is possible with women on your side, helping each other, and wanting nothing but the best to each other. How refreshing and reassuring this feeling is.
The Testaments is a sequal of the critically-acclaimed novel The Handmaid’s tale, by THE fierce, the one and only—Margaret Atwood. It narrates three atrocious stories about 3 women who struggled in Gilead, the orthodox and extremely conservative “religious” place where women are not allowed to read or dress as they please. Where women are treated as baby machines, or as powerful yet hopeless Aunts that the commanders took pleasure in pitting women against each other. The commanders that can’t handle women in power and are afraid of women who read and have strong mentality, so what’s the solution? Ban them from reading and take away their powerful titles and status. 
All the powerful women who were judges or lawyers or even politicians in their “previous life” have become Aunts in Gilead, the women who had been in relationships before are handmaids in Gilead. The “girls” who were teenagers or younger are taught in Ardua Hall to grow up and become an Aunt. At the end, they all united to leave this place, but how? Read this book to find out! 😍🙏🏻
This book will leave you astonished, panicked, screaming and kicking. However, it will also make you so damn proud to be a woman.