I will have to think about this and come back to it. 
 A couple of notes: 
 -the narrative from a broken, brainwashed woman was very believable, even if you couldn't always believe the events like she describes them. 
 -irony of Serena Joy campaigning for women to return to the home, then finds herself stuck in her own hell that she helped create 
 -the way the Gilead "revolution" comes about was eerily believable 
 -How it was more people ignoring what was going on that ignorance that really doomed them 
 -the loss of words, writing, reading, books of any kind as a means of control 
 -it's not tied up in a neat bow 
 -haunting and sure to make readers uncomfortable, as it should