[A powerful read]
Jun. 21st, 2023 07:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roaming_kate23Just finished reading The Power by Naomi Alderman. So much wow.
The premise of the book is that all the women in the world are able to shoot electricity out of their hands. And it gets interesting REAL fast because no one is sure how to deal with it and quickly women are running the world and there is a matriarchy,And men are FUCKED.
But of course things go wrong and Mother Eve, who is the one who kicked all of this off decides that the world needs to go back to the dark ages which is going to be several thousand years. It’s clear that eventually society was able to rebuild itself but there are mentions of what was, for the time articles of antiquity-or what passes for antiquity.
This is similar to The Passage where they are writing in a time much removed from the events of the book.In the case of The Passage it just goes along for a couple hundred pages or so and then BAM!The world ends. In the third book in the Passage series it is clear that the world has been rebuilt(but it is several generations after the events of the first book and whatever happened is a fairly distant memory. Also when everything goes to shit there is a gap of almost 100 years before the book continues(with an interlude right when things started to happen.)
The premise of the book is that all the women in the world are able to shoot electricity out of their hands. And it gets interesting REAL fast because no one is sure how to deal with it and quickly women are running the world and there is a matriarchy,And men are FUCKED.
But of course things go wrong and Mother Eve, who is the one who kicked all of this off decides that the world needs to go back to the dark ages which is going to be several thousand years. It’s clear that eventually society was able to rebuild itself but there are mentions of what was, for the time articles of antiquity-or what passes for antiquity.
This is similar to The Passage where they are writing in a time much removed from the events of the book.In the case of The Passage it just goes along for a couple hundred pages or so and then BAM!The world ends. In the third book in the Passage series it is clear that the world has been rebuilt(but it is several generations after the events of the first book and whatever happened is a fairly distant memory. Also when everything goes to shit there is a gap of almost 100 years before the book continues(with an interlude right when things started to happen.)
