Just finished the new Margaret Atwood book, The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. I really enjoyed it, although it is very different from the first book, which is hyperfocused on the experience of the Handmaid Offred and told only from her point of view on her very restricted life. In the Handmaid's Tale, plot events that are a big deal to Offred are actually fairly minor events (which of course is the point.) The Testaments is told from the perspectives of three very different women and includes a lot more action. I really loved the more extensive world-building and learning more about life outside the Handmaids (who are fairly minor characters here...this book focuses on Wives and Aunts). For those who watch the television series, the book reflects events through the end of the second season (so beyond the end of the original book) but at that point the two narratives head off in independent directions; when the series and the first book differ, it follows the precedent set by the book. For instance, in the book wives of the non-elite have a very distinctive costume that was not used for the show, but it's referenced in The Testaments. I really liked what the novel did with the character of Aunt Lydia so I am curious to see if the television series borrows it at all--they may decide they are too far down their own path, although I think there has been some hinting in the past season that they might be going there.