The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped off Hollywood and Shocked the World
Book
Published alongside the 2013 film The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Emma...
Me. You. A Diary
9.0
Rate It
Book
This is Dawn French's fabulous new non-fiction book for 2017, and it's totally interactive: take a...
Easily Distracted
Book
Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, the fourth of six children. From an...
Last Swill and Testament: The Hilarious, Unexpurgated Memoirs of Paul 'Sailor' Vernon, Blues Fanatic, Rare Record Dealer, Ligger, Erstwhile Bon Viveur and Friend to the Stars
Book
Born to shell-shocked parents in shell-shocked London shortly after the end of World War II, Paul...
How Soon is Now
Book
"If you look at all the people involved - Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself - nobody had...
The View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret
Book
Must we always later regret actions that were wrong for us to perform at the time? Can there ever be...
The Fifth Letter
4.0
Rate It
Book
A fun vacation game turns destructive, exposing dark secrets, deeply buried grudges, and a shocking...
Jet Black and the Ninja Wind: British Edition
Book
**Winner of the 2013-2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature****2015 Sakura...
The Collected Works of Jane Cavendish
Book
The first scholarly edition of the complete works of Jane Cavendish, this volume presents as...
Sarah (7800 KP) rated The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale #2) in Books
Nov 8, 2020
The Testaments is set over 15 years after the events of the first book, and for me this is the main problem with this story. The ending of The Handmaid's Tale was so open that you'd expect a sequel to at least follow on from this in a way. However it was disappointing to find out that despite a small mention of Offred and a potential implied suggestion of how her life turned out, this book completely avoids any direct resolution of her story. It's not that the story of the three main characters in this book is uninteresting, as it's not. The story in this is at least interesting and enjoyable to a point, especially as we find out more about Gilead. The teenage girls get a tad irritating at times and I do feel like this drags on a lot longer than it needs to (I may have dozed off reading this on a few occasions), but overall the story is good.
It's just that this is not the story I wanted from a sequel, and I didn't want a sequel at all. Whilst overall it's a decent and entertaining read, it is just entirely unnecessary as a sequel.