It's a riveting story, told in fittingly electric language, that explores how power corrupts everyone: those new to it and those resisting its loss'
New York Times
In this fierce and unsettling novel, the ability to generate a dangerous electrical force from their bodies lets women take control, resulting in a vast, systemic upheaval of gender dynamics across ... Read morethe globe
New York Times Books of the Year
The Power is at once as streamlined as a 90-minute action film and as weirdly resonant as one of Atwood's own early fictions
Boston Globe
This book sparks with such electric satire that you should read it wearing insulated gloves
Washington Post
An enthrallingly told Cassandra-like prophecy from the ever-inventive Naomi Alderman
Observer
The Power by Naomi Alderman is the feminist flipside to The Handmaid's Tale, asking what happens when women are suddenly the stronger sex
Evening Standard
This year's Baileys winner is simultaneously a high-concept thought experiment and a rollercoaster, action packed read
Guardian
It's a feminist dystopian page-turner of a thriller and I'm IN LOVE with it
Marian Keyes Electrifying
Margaret Atwood One of my favourite books of 2016 - clever, harrowing and thought-provoking
Paula Hawkins, best-selling author of The Girl on the Train Naomi's super-charged, subversive novel....forcing you to rethink everything
Psychologies
Frenetic sci-fi novel
Daily Mail
A gripping read and a reminder of the true joy of a truly engaging story
Stylist
Like the best science fiction, this dystopian feminist fantasy holds up a mirror to the here and now
Mail on Sunday
A raw, gutsy slice of speculative dystopia
Metro
What starts out as a fantasy of female empowerment deepens and darkens into an interrogation of power itself, its uses and abuses and what it does to the people who have it
Guardian
As awesome as it is compulsive
Heat, 5 stars
When we say that The Power is profoundly disturbing and you may well want to argue with it as you read, we mean that in a good way
SFX, Five Stars
Thought-provoking novel
Glamour
Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer
Sunday Times
If you enjoy Margaret Atwood's dystopian fiction, this strong, substantial novel is for you
Woman & Home
A feminist science-fiction story that's about to make waves
Red
The Power is a fascinating look at what the world might be like if millennia of sexism went the other way...as a whole the narrative feels ingenious...deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)
The Times
Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything
Margaret Atwood The Power is a subtly funny, lyrical and utterly subversive vision of an impossible future. As all the best visionaries do, Alderman shines a penetrating and yet merciful light on to our present and the so many cruelties in which we may be complicit
A. L. Kennedy The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale
Cosmopolitan
A stone cold genius
Sarah Perry The Handmaid's Tale for the Gone Girl generation
Grazia
It's magnificent. I'm agog. Really, I'm several gogs. So smart and scary and sad but true
Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Show Less