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mermandroid 's review for:
The Power
by Naomi Alderman
I read this book as apart of an online book club and found myself intrigued by the premise of women developing powers and could lead to a sprawling fantasy world. While it didn’t necessarily pan out this way I still enjoyed the way the novel addressed gender roles and how any person can have their decisions and morality corrupted by power.
To be honest I wouldn’t give this book a solid 4 stars, more like 3.5. There were multiple occasions where I had to suspend my disbelief because I would ask myself “would people really sound like this? Would they really do that?” The idea that men around the world wouldn’t double down on maintaining their status quo is sort of bananas...and I suppose Alderman filled this hole by stating men were getting sexually aroused by the electric power the women had but...really?? I found myself thinking “what about trans people? Where do they fit into this narrative?” but aside from a single side character that was mentioned to have a chromosome disorder this topic was never brought up which I think is a significant miss on the authors part.
What I did enjoy was the foreboding feeing of impending doom and how that influenced the pace of the novel. Many years would go by between parts of the book that allowed me to do some daydreaming to fill in the blanks about the changing state of the world. I also enjoyed the political intrigue and global presence as the book went on. I think this has the potential to be a great TV series one day.
To be honest I wouldn’t give this book a solid 4 stars, more like 3.5. There were multiple occasions where I had to suspend my disbelief because I would ask myself “would people really sound like this? Would they really do that?” The idea that men around the world wouldn’t double down on maintaining their status quo is sort of bananas...and I suppose Alderman filled this hole by stating men were getting sexually aroused by the electric power the women had but...really?? I found myself thinking “what about trans people? Where do they fit into this narrative?” but aside from a single side character that was mentioned to have a chromosome disorder this topic was never brought up which I think is a significant miss on the authors part.
What I did enjoy was the foreboding feeing of impending doom and how that influenced the pace of the novel. Many years would go by between parts of the book that allowed me to do some daydreaming to fill in the blanks about the changing state of the world. I also enjoyed the political intrigue and global presence as the book went on. I think this has the potential to be a great TV series one day.