4.5 stars 
 This is only my second experience with Margaret Atwood, and it's a good thing I was willing to try again after the bizarre and confusing first read (I guess her adult novels are better than her childlike adult graphic novel attempt). While there were points when I felt the punctuation was a little off, breaking up sentences in a disjointed way (which I can only assume was intentional), overall I felt that the story delivered a huge impact. 
 Do I think that this is a potential future for the human race? No, of course not, but Atwood took gender stereotypes to an extreme in order to have us reexamine our own present. The story was certainly unsettling, but wasn't overly graphic in its description. She also focused solely on Offred's story, and it's in this case that I feel the mini-series recently released is a welcome and necessary addition to the reading. It did a great job of filling in the blanks to the story that would have driven me crazy if left unanswered.