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A review by futurememory
The Power by Naomi Alderman
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
Ehhhhh. Probably a 1.5, but I don’t feel like rounding up today.
This book hits with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, and reads like genre fiction for the litfic set. The audience for a book like this is clearly for those that don’t read a lot of science fiction and fantasy.
I do this the premise was an interesting one, and I definitely enjoyed the framing narrative. But the actual reading experience of this one was painful. A lot of the POVs are flat out uninteresting. Their stories spin their wheels. And while the last pages make the author’s intent very clear, it didn’t exactly make any of the previous pages any more engaging or… not tiring to read.
A pretty big disappointment overall, unfortunately. I could have DNFed this.
This book hits with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, and reads like genre fiction for the litfic set. The audience for a book like this is clearly for those that don’t read a lot of science fiction and fantasy.
I do this the premise was an interesting one, and I definitely enjoyed the framing narrative. But the actual reading experience of this one was painful. A lot of the POVs are flat out uninteresting. Their stories spin their wheels. And while the last pages make the author’s intent very clear, it didn’t exactly make any of the previous pages any more engaging or… not tiring to read.
A pretty big disappointment overall, unfortunately. I could have DNFed this.