It was a good read, it was easier to get going than some of atwoods other books. The characters still went off on long tangents that sometimes made it difficult to tell the difference between what was currently happening and what was memories. But overall wasn’t that hard to follow. As you would want, the backstory of everyone gets slowly revealed as well as how this “situation” came about. I really wish the book was longer, and I was really surprised it wasn’t.