The Power

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Naomi Alderman: The Power (2019, Back Bay Books)

400 pages

Published Jan. 8, 2019 by Back Bay Books.

ISBN:
978-0-316-54760-4
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2 stars (1 review)

5 editions

Parts of it were really good

2 stars

Cool premise that the author doesn't carry all the way through. The story unfolds through several POV characters, but there's always the one (or more) that you're bored with, or there's a boring stretch for one you do like. So I often felt unsatisfied.

The conceit that the book itself is written by a man in a matriarchal world is fascinating. It only bookends the novel with "research" interspersed—I wished there was more.