The Power
Now a Major TV Series with Prime Video
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4.1 • 303 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
THE ICONIC BESTSELLING NOVEL, WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE, AND NOW AMAZON TV SERIES STARRING TONI COLLETTE AND AULI?I CRAVALHO
'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.'
Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed, and we look at the world in an entirely new light.
What if the power to hurt were in women's hands?
'Electrifying' Margaret Atwood
'A big, brash, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller' Guardian
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The Power imagines a dystopian universe where a power has awoken in teenage girls—suddenly they can harm others with a subtle flick of their wrists. This leaves men around the world vulnerable and terrified, setting up a story laced with deftly handled gender and social commentary and provocative, endlessly interesting twists. Naomi Alderman has created a dazzling, disturbing and entirely absorbing world here—she writes her four central characters with wit and emotional force and keeps you on edge the whole time.
Customer Reviews
Zap, Crackle, Pop.
Ooooooooh. I liked it.
Not necessarily all the characters or all the story arcs, but it’s a great idea. The weird, double discomfort reading it, would women really do that? And isn’t awful that men currently do?
Tunde is a great idea to be able to get a set of interested eyes in different parts of the world.
I finished it in a few days, I liked the short, snappy chapters, swapping characters. It was heavy handed in places, but I can forgive that as it kept it short and punchy.
It’s dark. It’s cleverly done. It’s to the point.
There’s bits of me that thrilled at the thought of having ‘the power’ (nothing new there, I’m named after a comic book character and have always wanted a super power.) but F@£&! I’d hope humanity would be better than the author gives us credit for. I hope I’d be better.
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Boring
Just couldn’t get into it