The way she rose to power and the following she created was incredible. I’m not sure if I think the voice was God or not, but I thought her journey was the most interesting. Unfortunately, I could see it happening.Īllie was my favorite character. You felt terrible for Jocelyn, being the daughter of such an ambitious woman who seemed to be using her daughter for political gain. I could see someone like her coming to power and maybe that’s what was so unlikable about her. Margot was a hard character for me to like but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t believable. I appreciated that, though I think we could have done without one or two of them. We got a good variety of characters in this book and, for the most part, they eventually overlapped which was a nice way to tie the whole thing together. I think the narrator took a little away from this for me, too.

I also didn’t like the number of characters we followed through the book, it almost seemed like too much. I liked the idea of women becoming the dominant sex though I didn’t like that it had to be an almost magical power they gained to make it happen. And, with this small twist of nature, the world changes utterly. Teenage girls now have immense physical power – they can cause agonizing pain and even death. But something vital has changed, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. In The Power the world is a recognizable place: there’s a rich Nigerian kid who lounges around the family pool a foster girl whose religious parents hide their true nature a local American politician a tough London girl from a tricky family.

The power by naomi alderman sparknotes