cphenly 's review for:

The Power by Naomi Alderman

2.0

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This author has a really bleak outlook on human nature. I'm willing to buy the premise most of the way, but we get to a point where I really did not believe what was happening.

Spoiler

I did not buy that those women would go so completely crazy with power that they would kill frightened and defenseless children. Perhaps we were meant to understand that the development of the power changed the biology of women in some substantial way, but nothing was really offered to suggest that.

The frame story salvages this to some degree--gave it some interest.