• Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
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• Format: ebook
• Start: 2024-11-07
• Finish: 2024-11-19

This is really four books (When You Had Power, You Knew the Price, Of Kindness and Kilwattes, and Yet You Cry When It Hurts), but I’m listing it as one because they’re very tightly connected and I read them back to back. A power engineer discovers sabotage against the power grid fights to uncover its source, leading to a secret power source which would revolutionize world politics. The first three are novellas and the fourth is a novel that finsihes the overarching story. I was initially frustrated by the format, because the books don’t stand alone. The ending of each answers some questions but introduces the next action rather than wrapping the story. Reading the entire series I actually really liked the structure, partly because it would’ve been difficult to do any other way. Each book has a different POV character and each one also expands the scope. The first book is a single power island, the second the power company in southern California, leading to the whole world by the fourth book. Accomplishing that without separating the stories into multiple books wouldn’t have worked as well.