decemberthirty | (Reply)

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I totally agree with you, every single word. I haven't read that book, but I find it's a problem I often have with Margaret Atwood. I read stuff that was absolutely spot on, a bit early on, but I think she went a bit over the top with this whole women and/or dystopian world. On the contrary, the best book I've read recently that I found totally believable despite its magic realism was Of Bees and Mist. I was sucked in, I didn't care about magic and all the other crazy stuff happening in the book - it was real, you could sympathise with the characters, the situations, and the world of the story was presented in a way that was just natural.