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I don't know why this book has such high ratings. It sounded like an interesting book, until I started to read it. I personally never got into it and if not that I had to finish it for a challenge I was doing I'm sure it would've made the short list of books on my dnf shelf. I don't believe that society would change so quickly and easily, it sounded as though everything happened within at most 10 years...and that's being generous. This just wasn't a book for me.
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In a world that has reverted back to a day where totalitarianism is commonplace and accepted, women known as “handmaids” are given (literally) to elite couples that are unable to have children, with the sole purpose of reproducing for them. If they do not fulfil this purpose, they are sent to the “colonies” to either work in agriculture or clear up toxic pollution, which eventually kills them, The story is set in future scenario in US.
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