Book description
For better, for worse. In sickness and in health.
It’s a legal vow of care for families in 2050, a world beset by waves of climate-driven plagues.
Power engineer Lucía Ramirez long ago lost her family to one—she’d give anything to take that vow. The Power Islands give humanity a…
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The book hooked me, and I couldn’t stop until I read the whole series. I loved the realistic future world, that is both hopeful and full of challenges; great, flawed characters who have depth and feel real; tight storytelling and fast pacing.
It’s a terrifying world ravaged by climate change and pandemics, where everyone has lost someone. However, it’s also a world I desperately want to live in, where actual leaders who care are in positions of power. Where people live in tightly-knit communities, and no one is truly alone. Where humanity has the collective power to change things for…
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