The Power characters

Appears from the start

A teenage girl from a London crime family who discovers an exceptionally strong electrical power when men attack her mother's home. Bold, practical, and already familiar with violence, she is unable to save her mother but becomes determined to identify who ordered the killing.

First appears in chapter 2

A foster child living under the control of an abusive guardian. An inner voice coaches her to use her newly awakened power, offering the certainty and protection she has never received from the adults around her.

First appears in chapter 3

A young Nigerian man who records a girl's first public display of the power and uploads the video. The attention it receives gives him a vocation as a reporter documenting the rapidly changing relations between women and men around the world.

First appears in chapter 4

An ambitious American mayor and the mother of two daughters. She responds to the emergence of the power as both a parent concerned for Jocelyn and a politician alert to how a change in physical power will reshape public authority.

First appears in chapter 4

Margot's older daughter, whose electrical ability develops unpredictably. Her difficulty controlling it leaves her isolated at the same time that public culture increasingly treats the power as the defining sign of female confidence.

Appears from the start

Roxy's father, a powerful London criminal whose organization extends protection to her after her mother's murder. He recognizes the value of her extraordinary ability but continues to conduct family relationships through hierarchy, secrecy, and business advantage.

Appears from the start

Roxy's older half-brother and a member of Bernie Monke's organization. He lacks the new physical advantage women possess and must renegotiate his standing within both the family and its criminal business.

Appears from the start

A London crime boss and rival of Bernie Monke. The attack on Roxy's mother is traced to her organization, making her the first target of Roxy's search for revenge.

First appears in chapter 7

The nun responsible for a convent that shelters girls. She gives Allie refuge and watches a new religious movement take shape around claims that the power has revealed a female aspect of divinity.

First appears in chapter 10

The glamorous wife of Moldova's authoritarian president. Treated as an ornament and subjected to his violence, she observes the arrival of the power in a country where women have been systematically exploited.

First appears in chapter 18

A boy Jocelyn meets at a training camp for young people learning to control electrical ability. He has a skein and can use the power, a circumstance that complicates the increasingly rigid division of society into powerful women and vulnerable men.

First appears in chapter 2

The presence Allie hears within her mind. It offers tactical advice, interprets events as proof of Allie's special purpose, and encourages her to turn private survival into public religious authority.