In Lagos, Tunde is 21-year-old guy who records a girl zapping a man who is harassing her, and he posts it online. The plan goes awry, but Roxy’s powers are strong enough to defeat and kill Primrose. Later, Bernie comes up with a plan to attack Primrose with the help of Roxy, her half-brothers and his men. Roxy isn’t able to save her mother, but she discovers she has the power to release electrical jolts of energy from her hands. He’s gotten on the wrong side of a man referred to as Primrose, who sends some men to kill Roxy’s mother. Ten and Nine Years prior, Roxy Monke is a 14-year-old girl living in London whose father, Bernie Monke, deals in illegal activities. The book follows a few characters, starting ten years before the final events of the novel. The Prologue of the book indicates that it is a historical account of the events, written by an author named Neil Adam Armon. The letters indicate that the Cataclysm remade the world into one run by women, where men are seen as the “nurturing” and “gentle” sex and where men are discriminated against and sexualized and oppressed. The epilogue takes place thousands of years later as the writer of this historical account defends his description of the events though a series of letters. The book ends as a destructive world war is about to start, known as the Cataclysm. Meanwhile, opposition to the women mounts as well and various factions are vying for power. As their power increases, they begin to oppress men in similar ways to how women were previously oppressed and mistreated. It results in revolts in countries where women have been oppressed, and in more women taking over positions of power. Although we are undoubtedly too wise and/or jaded now to believe in the kinds of women-led utopias depicted in such feminist classics as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland or Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time, The Power felt as though it skipped too quickly over the possibilities for difference, let alone betterment, and slid straight into a repeat of all the problems we have now, just sex-swapped.The two-paragraph version of this is: The Power is framed as a historical account of a period in history where women discovered they have the power to shoot electric jolts of energy from their hands, making them very dangerous.

If there was a flaw in the book it was that – to use a literary term – things went to shit too quickly. It doesn’t work quite so well on screen, where it feels like we are hopping endlessly about but, given that we don’t get to grips with what is going on until the third episode, moving ponderously slowly towards each revelation at the same time. There is time and detail enough to let the reader invest in each one.

In the book, this large cast is masterfully assembled and controlled by Alderman.

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