5/15/2023 0 Comments Mona chollet sorcières englishInterestingly this novel’s feminist message is not that women are inherently better and naturally more gentle than men. Some women don’t hesitate to electrocute whoever bothers them. Men get assaulted more often and women use (abuse) their powers whenever they feel like it. And women decide that God is female (why not?). Men get scared, lobby for single-sex schools to protect their boys from female attacks. In short the central premise of this sci fi novel is that women have developed the ability to release electricity from their fingers (and brains) and are thus in a position to become the dominant gender. In my ebook, I had fun mentioning Naomi Alderman’s novel, The Power (2016), which elaborates on this connection between power and energy, quite literally.
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