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The Power by Naomi Alderman

95 reviews

gabgeh's review

adventurous dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Incredible. Amazing. Thought-provoking. Best book I've read this year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Torture, Violence, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Trafficking, War, Xenophobia, Body horror, Death, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Abandonment, Death of parent, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Slavery

annir's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Transphobia, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Violence, Drug use, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Gun violence, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Classism, Islamophobia, Child death, Hate crime, Slavery, Torture, Confinement, Cursing, and Body horror

angelkisses's review against another edition

challenging dark informative fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Tore through this book in a day. Riveting. The content was obviously quite disturbing but I found myself laughing at the emails exchanged, especially at the end. I also love when authors challenge structural conventions so the "fictionalised history book/anthropological study" with illustrations and outside correspondence and all was perfect.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual harassment, Slavery, and War

henneyce's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This really made me rethink about how much structural patriarchy there is today and how much injustice there is in the world that is being allowed. This book is very dark and very thought provoking. There is a lot of violence. I feel the message is worth pushing through the challenging/disturbing bits.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Rape, War, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Torture

This book is important and like handmaid's tale some of the darkness shines a light on darkness in our world. It is worth reading

wine_tea_paper's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

The best way to describe The Power is an alternate history dystopian. In a world where women control the world, things actually aren’t any better than when men control it. 

This book was eye opening, sad, and gruesome. Kinda like a car accident. You know you should stop watching but you just can’t help yourself. 

The Power is truly a must read book. It was pretty slow for me to get through but I still enjoyed every chapter of it. 

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
TW: sexual abuse, war, death 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death, Child death, and War

jackflan's review

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book had a really cool idea that I thought was quite unique. Essentially flipping gender roles entirely. And I think it executed that goal very well. Really cool world building, and I didn’t mind changing POVs often since it just deepened my immersion into the world and showed more perspectives and reactions to the incoming change of status quo. However, the was a continuous build up— they literally started each chapter by saying “X years until it happens…” getting closer and closer to this big event. However, it wasn’t really explained what even happened. It was glossed over generally in about 1 page. Overall still a cool book, and similar to the Handmaids tale, I really liked the ending of analyzing the events of the book as a text to be examined. Overall it was still a good book!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

karaswils's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book gets 5 stars from me because of the amount of “holy shit” moments it has—in a good way. I love the way that power is explored as it relates to patriarchy, sexual violence, and a host of other dynamics. 

It’s also very dark and violent, so—be warned.

My biggest disappointment is that there is absolutely no discussion, exploration, or even a nod to queer folks, especially queer women, in this novel. For all that Alderman does to capture a variety of perspectives and responses to a worldwide phenomenon, the absence of wlw seems like a big oversight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Medical trauma, War, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Sexual harassment

jesseybean's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Torture, War, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Death, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Trafficking

Minor: Abortion

welkinvault's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The idea behind this novel is just astounding.  The novel just rips along and pulled me with it.  but  - I had a lot of reservations with it, one of which is that it is very cis gendered, and it actually felt dated.  

and the ending, the back and forth between ?academics? it just made me laugh as it was so clumsily done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Violence, Child abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, and Sexism

Moderate: Slavery, Toxic friendship, Trafficking, Sexual harassment, Vomit, and Religious bigotry

thelizzielibrary's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Well, this will certainly give you food for thought. It was all sorts of fucked up and terrifying. It will live in my mind forever. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Addiction, Antisemitism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, and War