Працювати я зараз звісно не буду, краще розкажу вам про найкращу книжку що я прочитала в 2025 році. The TestamentsI mean the sequel of The Handmaids Tale, published almost 35 years after the original story. Of course, it's a masterpiece. I'm sure everyone knows The Handmaids Tale, it was well known before and it's extremely popular now. Funnily enough, Margaret Atwood herself said that nobody would pay much attention to this book today if not for current US politics. You know, all of that Roe & Wade overturn and ICE hystery. Anyway, I read the Handmaids Tale when I was a teen - obviosly because I wanted to brag and look smart (who do you think I am). But when I finished it, I felt like something heavy had crushed my skull and left it bare for a few days. The epilogue was the most crusial part for me, future historians vivisecting the dairy of this nameless woman, trying to put her into the past gystopian context and making cruel assumptions. See, this is the part I actually dislike in the series - the amount of explanation. The book hit so hard because the Handmaind had no past, no future and no name. Now I'm much less empressionable, but nonetheless I will say - The Testaments is better. My opinion of course, both books are incredible social commentaries, but the later is just more fun to read. Maybe because, in a nutshell, one is a slice of life, while the other is about a notoriosly difficuld (and successful) attemt to owerthough the regime. The story set 15 years after the first book and has 3 POVs - two belong to the children of the original Handmaid, and the third is Aunt Lidia, the same one who tortured the main heroine thoroughout the whole first book. What can I say, completelly different vibe. What I liked about it: - Aunt Lidia. Honestly she is the perfect character, her story extremely engaging to read. She is basicaly the one who created "the women world" in Gilead, but she did it unwillingly, with intention to destroy it from the inside. It's so fun to read all her inner monologues where she basically hates everyone. She is like a huge ugly spider sitting on top of the pyramid, and covering everything around with her web, quaetly making especially disgusting people disapear. - Aunt Lidia's perspective, it gives us far more information about the Gilead. Just because this character knows more. - The flashbacks and the rise of Gilead story- The book is an easy read. I mean, that kind of books could be a bit borring, like social commentary on top of social commentary with nothing in between. But here the plot is interesting and I read it in two days. - The sisters relationship dinamic. They hate each others guts from the start and learn to coexist throughout the course of events. Slowly. It's funny, I like them. - The chosen sisters relationship dinamic. It's just wholesome.- Becka - The story of a young, opinionated teenager who accidentaly discovers that she is, in fact, a political symbol she sees in news all the time. - Tha Aunts. They are like bizarre, deeply questionable satanic order. - Funky Old Testement names. Agnes Jemima and Shunamite is insane. What I disliked (a bit):- How fast was everything near the ending. I belive it's intentional, but still felt a bit rushed. Maybe I just wanted more pages in this book. Anyway, 10/10, highly recoment, Margaret Atwood is amazing. If I see her name on the cover - I'm reading it. If I see her fase on a video cover - I'm watching it.