4.5 stars
This book had been on my possible TBR list for a long time, but thanks to the Netflix series coming out, my book club chose to read it. And I'm so glad that I read it. I was expecting a strange and kind of dry book (although I have no idea why, since I've never read anything by this author before). But the writing was fantastic and I was completely enthralled. It took me a little time to get used to the narrator jumped backwards in time, reminiscing about the past, but I did like the technique. This world was very strange indeed, but I could see the "realistic" set up for the transition to this strange dystopia. I can absolutely see that Margaret Atwood wrote is as a warning for the future. Hopefully society never comes to these terms. Women are treated like breeding animals and even men are stripped of their dignities. I avidly followed Offred's daily life and just wanted her to escape. I was left wanting more! That ending! So many questions.

Spoiler

Did she "get out" or is she really going to jail? What happened to her daughter? Is she really pregnant with Nick's child?

Note: the audiobook was really really well done!