![]() The Power has to do with an actual electrical power possessed by women. Most are able to yield electricity, and can harm and kill others with it. This new power has moved up women in society, making them something men fear and want to control even more than they already do. The story counts down from 10 years until a big event at the end, and rotates between four people’s perspectives. They are each from different parts of the world, such as America, England and Nigeria. Two of the people are teenage girls, Roxy and Allie, who live in England and America respectively and have very different, but both equally complicated lives, such as Roxy and her extremely successful family that is head of a giant crime syndicate. Another is middle aged mom and American politician Margot, who has to hide her own power so she can safely move up the political ladder and try to make things better in America for other females with the power. And finally, twenty-something rich Nigerian photojournalist Tunde, the only male narrator. His job is capturing the stories of the power sweeping the globe, and the aftermath and chaos it is causing from all perspectives. Women are rising up, men are going crazy trying to push them back down, and the entire world is torn on what to do about the female power that only grows with time. I would give this book a solid 9/10. I love the female power, extreme diversity of the characters, and the ever twisting plot that keeps you wondering. Sometimes it felt like I was really with the characters, running through female riots with Tunde, or trying not to release my power on the annoying, know-it-all higher up, Daniel, who Margot has to defeat on her run for state Governor. My biggest pet peeve about this book though is the grammar and language; it is like a bad editing job. Some parts have confusing sentences, and others use strange slang like “cos” randomly, not just in dialogue, that you wouldn’t think would be in a published book. Also, I’m not a religious person, so I didn’t like the religious stuff involved in Allie’s part; she becomes “Mother Eve,” the religious head of the entire woman’s power movement, which is pretty cool. I personally didn’t like how tied to religion her role in the book (and movement) was though. -CC, grade 12
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