A review by jem_ko
The Power by Naomi Alderman

3.0

I have very mixed feelings about this book. Whilst the premise and writing was interesting at first -especially with the chosen style of narration slowly intertwining our distanced characters- the book JUST KEPT GOING. There were so many times I thought I had reached the climax of the story arc and then I realised I still had hundreds of pages left. The ending is arguably unsatisfying though that depends on what you expect of it; I found it sort of fitting and it made me feel content after all I had witnessed within this dystopian utopia that Alderman creates. Despite this I must say that the way the book does have some great plot twists and the way every character has developed by the end (apart from one cough cough) is actually quite phenomenal and not devoid of realism.