حكاية الجارية

Não gostei muito do estilo de escrita mas este livro é único.

Loved the book 🫶🏻 THE ENDING WOAW😲 I strongly recommend it! It's so important to understand history to not repeat it and everything in the book has already happened.. It's so crazy 😥

From the very beginning, there’s this constant sense of dread, like something is deeply wrong and there’s no way out of it. The world is stripped down to control, power, and survival, and women are reduced to nothing but vessels. No identity, no voice, no autonomy. Just existence for someone else’s purpose. It’s horrifying, and what makes it worse is how believable it feels.

The whole idea of Gilead isn’t loud or chaotic in a typical dystopian way. It’s controlled. Structured. Justified. That’s what makes it scary. The system doesn’t see itself as evil, it sees itself as necessary. And that’s where the book really hits. It shows how easily people can be conditioned, how oppression can be dressed up as order, and how quickly rights can disappear when fear and ideology take over.

Offred as a narrator adds another layer to it. She’s not some rebellious hero trying to tear the system down. She’s surviving. Remembering. Holding onto pieces of who she used to be in a world that’s actively trying to erase her. And that line between resistance and submission is so blurred it makes everything feel even heavier.

At the same time, I get why some people struggle with it. The writing can feel very deliberate, almost too aware of itself at times, and the pacing isn’t fast. It’s not a plot-driven book. It’s atmosphere, tension, and internal unraveling. If you’re expecting constant action, you’re not getting that here.

But honestly? That slowness works in its favor. It forces you to sit in the discomfort. To actually think about what’s happening instead of just consuming it and moving on.

And the scariest part is how relevant it still feels. This doesn’t read like some distant, impossible future. It reads like something that could happen if the wrong ideas are pushed far enough.

Overall, this is one of those books that I respect more than I “enjoyed,” but it’s undeniably powerful.