This book was entirely too slow moving which would have been okay if I felt the story was complete. But I did not so I would have happily traded for a faster pace and thus a more fleshed-out dystopia. Especially since Atwood's ideas about genetic modification are quite interesting and I would have appreciated more detail. The end result of this pace was that the action all came a little too quickly and the end and some of what was happening was completely unexplained and therefore seemed a little too out in left field, leaving me dissatisfied with this book.