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teawitchontravel 's review for:
The Power
by Naomi Alderman
dark
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I don't agree with some of the things happening in this book and hope humans would be able to sustain more humanity in a world like this. The book is pretty easy to read through if you are ready with reading really brutal and explicit scenes. The way it set up is pretty different to anything I have ever read.
I really like the way the emails are used to build this fictional reality in which Neil and Naomi live in. A world in which they are ruled by a matriarchat and women are to believed to have had the power forever. The way they write about how impossible it would be, that man rule over women and that stuff that happens to men in their society could have never happened to women gives me goosebumps.
I also like how the protagonists are written. Two of them are still kids, when the story begins and they act in a way that is mostly understandable from an outside perspective. They slowly change to do things which are harder to excuse and don't seem to see how wrong it is they do. In the end Roxy and Tunde seem to be the most sensible out all of them (maybe because they don't have the power?) and Mother Eve and Margot seem to have gone corrupted by the voice of power. At least as far as I understand.
I think it will take me another few days to get the book to its full extend, but I will definitely keep thinking about it.
I also like how the protagonists are written. Two of them are still kids, when the story begins and they act in a way that is mostly understandable from an outside perspective. They slowly change to do things which are harder to excuse and don't seem to see how wrong it is they do. In the end Roxy and Tunde seem to be the most sensible out all of them (maybe because they don't have the power?) and Mother Eve and Margot seem to have gone corrupted by the voice of power. At least as far as I understand.
I think it will take me another few days to get the book to its full extend, but I will definitely keep thinking about it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment
Moderate: Sexual content