Brief synopsis:
The Power is a sci-fi novel which explores a world in which women become the dominant sex. As teenage girls across the world develop the power to emit electric shocks from their fingertips they start to use it both as a defence against violence and as a corruptive power to control. In challenging gender stereotypes it shows that regardless of gender, power can corrupt and destroy. What starts as a power used by women to escape abusive and dangerous situations soon becomes a tool used without a moral code, to control and destroy. Whether you see it as a feminist book or an anti-feminist book, The Power exposes harsh truths around the injustices, indignities and inequalities faced by women in society and leaves readers wondering what would happen if the power dynamic shifted.
Key themes:
Power
Corruption
Gender inequalities
Sexism
Violence
Religion
Read this book when: you want thought provoking escapism which challenges perspectives on gender
