Meera’s Reviews > The Handmaid’s Tale > Status Update

The last time I read the lead up to a rape scene, at least it was over in <50 pages...267 is a bit much

And sometime it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would knew too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time.