This month was not the best month for reading.
I only read one book this month.
I would blame it on February being the shortest month of the year and all, but after my two-week work trip and our unexpected loss of Yukon, the past few weeks just haven’t been great at all for reading.
Unfortunately, the one book I read this month wasn’t even that great, either. I think that also contributed to my inability to focus on reading at all. I love to find escape in a book, and when a book doesn’t completely capture me, it’s hard for me to commit to it.
(As a reminder: I always track my reading both on Goodreads and via Instagram stories.)
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“THE POWER” BY NAOMI ALDERMAN
All across the world, a shift is happening. Teenage girls suddenly develop “the power” — the ability to generate electrical force with their bodies. Throughout this change, four main characters — an aspiring female politician, a rich male Nigerian journalism student, a female British criminal and an abused female foster child — navigate a quickly-changing world. What happens when the oppressed becomes the oppressor?
I wanted to love this book. I so badly wanted to love this book. The concept of it is so, so good! But unfortunately, the execution was atrocious. The writing was awful, the story was all over the place and the presentation — it’s written as a book-within-a-book — was terrible. All the characters are one-dimensional and there are so many unnecessary bits of dialog (both internal and external) and descriptions and narration that the first 75% of the book absolutely drags on. I almost put this book down a dozen times over the past month since it didn’t start getting interesting until the last quarter of the book. I did see that a miniseries was developed for this book, so maybe I’ll give that a watch to see if it’s a little more fulfilling.
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Happy reading!
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