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What would happen if women could thoroughly, completely, permanently turn the tables?

The Power by Naomi Alderman

August 1, 2020 by Bothari43 1 Comment

I feel like this was meant to be a cautionary tale, with an ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’ type of message, but maybe I was in the wrong mindset for it, because my reaction was way more on the side of “FRAK YEAH, GET ‘EM!!!” All of a sudden, teenage girls all over the world develop the power to produce electricity from their fingertips. A (long-dormant? brand new?) organ called a skein, located over the collarbone, allows the girls to create and deploy electricity. Parents and […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: absolute power corrupts absolutely, naomi alderman, sisters are doing it for themselves, the power, too lazy for bingo

Bothari43's CBR12 Review No:22 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: absolute power corrupts absolutely, naomi alderman, sisters are doing it for themselves, the power, too lazy for bingo ·
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