There’s Roxy: the scrappy, illegitimate daughter of a London crime boss. Allie is a survivor of sexual assault in foster care she’s also host to an unnervingly perspicacious voice of nebulous origin. The Power’s cast of characters is compelling enough. However, in its fidelity to its core idea, The Power fails to fully realize its characters and story arc. Executed primarily through motifs and Biblical allusion, this premise provokes readers to ponder gender dynamics and societal fabric. In its overall suspenseful readability, the book posits that such a change in biology along gender lines would upend all basic relationships and life on earth as we know it specifically, that women would come to subjugate men. The power radiates from the Skein-a strip of volt-generating tissue growing along their collarbones. The story takes place in the not-so-distant future when adolescent girls discover they have a new power: emitting electric shock from the palm of their hands. Will the quality of the adaptation’s characters be better than those in the book? Their prospects are dubious, considering its source material: an idea-driven dystopian novel that fries its characters with an over-abundance of imagery and biblical allusion. With the television series adaptation being released 31 March on Amazon, readers will be treated to an on-screen fulfillment of the work. Naomi Alderman’s sensational third novel The Powerfrom 2017 represents made-for-Hollywood fiction.
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