Recommended Age:
16
+
Ideal for independent readers who like thought-provoking, character-driven speculative fiction with immersive world-building.
About the Book
When women and girls around the world develop the ability to generate electrical jolts capable of causing pain or death, the global balance of power inverts over the course of a few decades, and the novel follows several characters across different countries as the new world order is established with women in dominance and men in subjugation. A provocative thought experiment about the relationship between power and gender-based violence. A Baileys Women's Prize winner.
Content Ratings
💡
Intense Themes
The book is a sustained examination of how power corrupts regardless of gender, whether any group holding absolute power will reproduce the same violence and subjugation, and the structural rather than biological roots of gendered violence.
⚔️
High Violence
Female-on-male violence escalates to institutionalized subjugation, war crimes, and genocide. The book depicts rape, torture, and massacre with unflinching directness.
Engagement:
Genre:
Science Fiction
Published:
2016
Page Count:
341
