A review by leighgoodmark
The Power by Naomi Alderman

5.0

There are so many things buzzing through my head right now that I can't make sense of all of them, but let me say this--this is the most original, thought provoking, horrifying, fascinating book I have read in a long, long time. I'm going to be thinking about this one a lot. And it's not just because the ideas are provocative, which they are, but because the narrative, the characters, the plot work so well in the service of the ideas--the world feels so real that it makes all of the underlying ideas that much more powerful.