Lauren O. (LoMel) - , reviewed on 11/21/2015 + 134 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

This wasn't my favorite Atwood book but it was still a decent read. Essentially set in a dystopian future similar to Oryx And Crake except with a lighter, more satirical tone. Some of the satire and parody in here could get a little heavy-handed at times and I thought the last third of the book was less interesting in terms of setting and plot development than the earlier sections, but any book that gets people to consider the ethics of issues like prison privatization is probably worth the read regardless of smaller issues. This isn't her best work but then I feel like very few books come close to Oryx or Handmaid's Tale.

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