The Power

In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: There's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family.

But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power - they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets. From award-winning author Naomi Alderman, The Power is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.

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400 pages

Average rating: 6.62

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RoseS98
Oct 30, 2024
5/10 stars
Very interesting at first but it gets a bit stale in the middle
lovlilynne
Aug 06, 2024
Didn't finish
Anonymous
May 07, 2024
10/10 stars
I really liked the way this book was structured. It really messes with your head seeing societal norms upside down.

This one is so vivid and suspenseful (sometimes brutal) and poetic in places. You root for everyone and no one - all the characters are a little great and a little awful in different measures that shift through the story which I found super engaging. Really made me think and feel it.
BioGirl
Jan 11, 2024
5/10 stars
Although I appreciated the concept for this book, the characters did not have depth and the story was not that interesting to me. The plot was two dimensional and didn’t have a unique outcome. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely - ho hum.
JShrestha
Aug 25, 2023
8/10 stars
In a parallel world with pop culture and technology to match ours, the main difference is a surging electrical power that the women of the world have been developing from their internal organs. The reader follows this new female ability around the world as each character follows human nature as the females feel the power confidence and the males feel the power jealously. The shift of dynamic in each chapter and storyline makes the reader on edge. It felt very well written as we have witnessed humanity shift power, dominance, and control over judgement for everything from race, gender, and what others consider abnormal.

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