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#15 The Power by Naomi Alderman

What if women became more powerful than men? In this book, due to chemical contaminants, women develop the ability to generate electric current, like eels. We see the changes in society from the POV of several different characters, none which were especially likeable. I was excited to read this book, especially with the endorsement from Margaret Atwood. As several reviewers on Goodreads have said, this book would've been better as a short story. I think the main message was that power corrupts but it quickly got extreme with the women killing men by the handful and essentially starting the world over.