![]() ![]() I’m both sensitive and inured to much violence in book (I have many feelings but I also read a lot of messed up stuff), and I can imagine more sensitive readers might find those scenes even more difficult to stomach. Alderman amped up the violence to a level that felt overly voyeuristic and indulgent and frankly unnecessary. In The Handmaid’s Tale, patriarchy has been taken to an extreme and women have been robbed of individuality and so on in The Power, women have developed what is essentially a magic power and used it to turn society on its head and establish a matriarchal structure which has become so ingrained that the ‘historical’ notes at the end reflect a world that seems to be the complete opposite of ours.įor the most part, this book is very readable and not too much like hard work despite some heavy themes explored, but there are a couple of truly horrifying scenes that I honestly want to bleach from my brain. Both are presented as “historical” accounts from some point in the future (this one is supposedly five thousand years in the future), and focus on ideas of gender. ![]() ![]() That is, the stories they tell are entirely different, and so is the style, but the themes and the way they approach it have a lot in common. This was a very interesting book to read immediately after reading The Handmaid’s Tale, which I read on Sunday, because they’re very similar. ![]()
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