A review by leah_alexandra
The Power by Naomi Alderman

fast-paced

2.5

This was pretty bad, overall. There’s so much going on that it leaves absolutely no room for nuanced explorations of some of the more interesting ideas that undergird the book. It’s pretty violent, and I really had a hard time getting behind the idea that in just a few short years of development this “power,” hordes of women would just flip to exacting the same kind of violence against men as men do against women in patriarchal societies. The book relies on a gender binary in a pretty problematic way, and religion (theoretically all religions, but in actuality Christianity) is very centered in a way I did not expect. I didn’t feel like I was able to connect with any of the characters, and they were written pretty unrealistically, powers aside. The writing itself was also quite juvenile. 
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