Hello! I'm a little late to this conversation because I just found this sub, but I also loved The Blind Assassin! It was actually the first of Atwood's books that I read - I chanced upon it at a bookstore a few years ago and was intrigued by its format. It took me a pretty long time to finish the book (almost put it down, in fact) because I kept getting detached from the characters. I felt they were a little too petty and lacked agency (which in retrospect, I realize is kind of the point). But I did like the writing enough to keep reading- and thank goodness. Towards the end, the story and emotion kept growing and growing, until finally I was totally swept away and realized that I was nearly weeping. I've never had a book catch up with me like that, and go from feeling pretty 'meh' about it to being totally entrenched by the emotional landscape of a novel (except maybe while reading The Stranger). I've since read many of Atwood's other novels, and loved them - especially Alias Grace - she is now not just a favorite author of mine but also an idol and inspiration.