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The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel) by Margaret Atwood

16 reviews

nagoatsis's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, War, Death, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Abortion and Mental illness

rhiannon814r's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Infertility, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Confinement, Blood, and Slavery

Moderate: Infidelity, Death, Trafficking, Suicide, Misogyny, and Colonisation

Minor: Body shaming, Abortion, and Miscarriage

karydiazc's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Me regalaron este libro y debo decir que fue un muy bien regalo. Es di ícil y desgarrador es pensar lo fácil que algo así podría suceder en nuestra sociedad con el movimiento de algunas personas en el poder. 

Este es un libro que toca temas fuertes que tal vez a simple vista no lo pareciera, pero te deja pensando. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Miscarriage, Confinement, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Infertility, and Rape

Moderate: Confinement, Gaslighting, Death, Infertility, Abortion, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Slavery, and Rape

ninahuynh's review

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.75

Another book where I tried out the graphic novel first. I have heard of the premise of the book before, so I came in with some understanding of what to expect. As I read on, I started to understand the reasoning behind the third-person rather than just for narration sake. I found the ending interesting and gave me lots of questions. So was this like a diary or "retelling" of how a woman's life could have been in this era? Using Offred like the Jane Doe to narrative?

The art is good. I like the uses of a set of color palette and using certain colors to delineate the different factions of women in that society. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Classism, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Suicide, Alcohol, Child death, Medical content, Body shaming, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Abortion

good_names_dont_exist's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry and Abortion

Moderate: Sexual assault, Bullying, and Infertility

It’s the handmaids tale, so know what you’re getting into

theaceofpages's review

challenging dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

I don't know how much it is because I don't read many graphic novels,  but I feel like you might struggle to follow this if you aren't familiar with the story. I'm vaguely familiar with the plot but still felt a little lost at times. That being said, the art is absolutely beautiful and I enjoyed the different colour choices for different times and themes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Infertility, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Rape, and Infidelity

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion

contemporarymeepsie's review

challenging dark hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This was an interesting retelling of the original story by Margaret Atwood. Obviously everything is condensed but we get all the main plot points with lots of the emotion and fear seen via the imagery. The artwork is very beautiful and I enjoyed the watercolour aspect to some of the illustrations. The use of various colour palettes and background colours to denote time periods was very clever too. Overall I enjoyed this book, having the context of having read the original meant I flew through the story and found it very easy to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Abortion

jainabee's review

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This graphic adaptation is visually beautiful and conveys the dystopian tone and social complexities of the story in a way that enhanced my appreciation for Atwood's novel. (I haven't seen the TV series) There is enough discretion in the visual details that much is left to the reader's imagination, yet the horror of the story's reality is not diminished. This is dark, depressing stuff, especially since the fiction is not far enough away from the facts.

There's no happy ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, War, Grief, Murder, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Trafficking, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Racism, Ableism, Abortion, and Infidelity

This is a dystopian classic; enter at own risk.

gabrielleclarke05's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Ouch. The illustrations were great and the story was sad 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexual violence, Torture, Abortion, Body shaming, Colonisation, Cursing, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Acephobia/Arophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Confinement, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and War

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Torture

lectricefeministe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, Blood, Body shaming, Colonisation, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical content, Abortion, Body horror, Religious bigotry, and Sexism