The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I waited for a whole week to review this book, so that i could understand at last how I felt about it. Sometimes I’m still thinking of it. So I guess the story has left an impression on me. Yes, it wasn’t believable that a society of that kind could grow so quickly and that the women who just a couple of years ago were wearing bikinis on the beach had turned into birthing machines, but that improbability didn’t make the book unreadable. In fact, it kept me reading. Some people seem to hate the ending, but i liked how the book ended. I don’t think there could be any other way to end this story.
The Handmaid’s Tale wasn’t as great as I had expected, but I enjoyed it and recommend it to readers who like dystopian novels.

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Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson

Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Usually I’m not proud of myself for finishing a book (cause it’s not a big deal), but I’m really proud now for reading this one till the end. I did that without skipping a single page, despite that I wanted to do so after the first 10%. Before I Go to Sleep is overly long, overly boring thriller, where in the first 90% nothing thrilling is happening. Day to day the reader follows Christine, the protagonist who suffers from amnesia and reads her dull and repetitive journal entries.

I’m not one of those people who claim to know the outcome of a book and are never surprised. Not at all. If I can’t guess the twist till the end, I say so. Here, I guessed the outcome halfway through the book. And it made my reading harder. I just can’t understand how the characters in one book can be so dumb. Or how stupid is the staff at a hospital. Or how uncaring could be a doctor, a best friend, a husband, and a grown-up son. I mean, come on!
There were too many inconsistencies, too many coincidences, even too much fantasy. Yes, fantasy, because otherwise I couldn’t believe the things happening in this book.

One more thing that bugged me was the narrator’s voice. The book is written in a first person POV, but it was so obvious that the writer was man. I can’t really explain why, but somehow it was obvious.

This book went on forever. I can’t believe it’s over and that I can move on to something else.
2.5 stars.

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