Review of "The Testaments" by Margaret Attwood

A sequel to The Handmaids Tale, which I read a long time ago, before I started writing book reviews so consistently. That was a great, terrifying dystopian novel. This is slightly less so. It starts our really well, and is so chilling that I could only read it in the daytime, not last thing at night. Reading in the Trump era, with the religious, fascist and misogynist far right to strong, is very painful - at the time of the first book that was much less so, so that it almost felt like an allegory for fundamentalist regimes in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Not now.

But as it progresses plot takes over from atmosphere, so that by the end it's something of an adventure yarn. Still good, but not the same experience.