September 2019 Not First Book in a Series BOTM - The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood

[Alaina]

The Testaments is not available until publication date, September 10, 2019

In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her—freedom, prison or death.

With The Testaments, the wait is over.

Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.

"Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." —Margaret Atwood

[Alaina]

SOOOO EXCITED THAT I HAVE THE AUDIO TODAY <3

[OjoAusana]

Binge read it today and I was not disappointed :D

[Caroline]

Chapter 15
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I’m pretty bored so far. The plot is moving very slowly, and the world building is not that interesting because it is the same world as The Handmaid’s Tale.
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[Caroline]

Chapter 25
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The plot is picking up a bit now, since we found out that Daisy is actually Baby Nicole. I can’t believe they pretended her birthday was the first of May, though. If they want to avoid suspicion, shouldn’t they have picked a more subtle day? Like seriously, they could have gone with a date in April!
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[Caroline]

Chapter 38
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I wonder if Aunt Lydia has some bigger plan. Maybe she just felt sorry for Agnes, but I kind of doubt it.
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[Damselflies]

Started
5% (view spoiler)[Possibly one of the narrators (Agnes) being the daughter of Offred ? (hide spoiler)]
9% (view spoiler)[ So far the narrators are Agnes (daughter of Offred probably) and Lydia, possibly the 3rd somehow related to Offred herself ? (hide spoiler)]
12% (view spoiler)[ 3rd narrators possibly Nicole ? the baby that has been "stolen" away from Gilead and her mother being a handmaid originally ? (hide spoiler)]

[Caroline]

Chapter 56
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It’s so weird that these 13-year-old girls go around calling each other Aunt So-and-So.

Edit: Actually, I think a bunch of time passed and I didn't notice? Now I'm confused and not sure how old they are.
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[Damselflies]

33% (view spoiler)[So Baby Nicole, Agnes and Lydia, very curious how it all is going to match together. Interesting so far but not that much has happened (hide spoiler)]

[Damselflies]

67% (view spoiler)[I hope they can bring Gilead down (hide spoiler)]

[Damselflies]

Finished (view spoiler)[Ah this was so great, I know this is probably the end of it all, she'll never touch this world anymore, but is it bad I wouldn't mind a 3rd or even a 4 book about Gilead ? I love how it's just a retelling and at the end you have these historians discussing it. (hide spoiler)]

[Caroline]

Finished!
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So the whole time I thought Agnes was Offred's daughter, but then I was confused when Nicole was revealed to be her sister, because I didn't think Offred had two children. But she did according to the epilogue, so I must have missed that somehow.
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