Yes! I didn't even mention that Stardust was kind of boring! If I'd liked the characters more, I think I'd have found it less boring.

Some of Atwood's other books do much better with female characters, as I recall, but she does tend to show women whose agency is compromised (most famously in Handmaid's Tale). I think she does better in The Year of the Flood, particularly if you compare the women with Jimmy from Oryx and Crake. I sure wouldn't urge you to rush out and read Year of the Flood, though, if you didn't like the previous book very much. I'm conflicted about both; I thought that was mostly because I'm very resistant to most postapocalyptic fiction, but I did have other problems with the novels as well.