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When You Had Power

Nothing Is Promised, Book 1

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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 fighting chance, but tending kelp farms and solar lilies is a lonely job. The housing AI found her a family match, saying she should fit right in with the Senegalese retraining expert who’s a force of nature, the ex-Pandemic Corps cook with his own cozy channel, and even the writer who insists everything is stories, all the way down. This family of literal and metaphorical refugees could be the shelter she’s seeking from her own personal storm.

She needs this one to work.

Then an unscheduled power outage and a missing turtle-bot crack open a mystery. Something isn’t right on Power Island One, but every step she takes to solve it, someone else gets there first - and they’re determined to make her un-see what she’s seen. Lucía is an engineer, not a detective, but fixing this problem might cost her the one thing she truly needs: a home.

When You Had Power is the first of four tightly connected novels in a new hopepunk series. It’s about our future, how society will shift and flex like a solar lily in the storms of our own making, and how breaks in the social fabric have to be expected, tended to, and healed. Because we’re in this together, now more than ever before.

©2022 Susan Kaye Quinn (P)2022 Spotify Audiobooks Dystopique Science-fiction
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But it's underwhelming. The narration, maybe due to the narrator's accent, sounds to me like a robot voice. I think the editing might have been too brutal between sentences, because I usually listen at 1.25x speed but here it was unbearable, robotic, and I had to stay at 1x for it to resemble a human voice. That's really an issue with this title because I'm using usual equipment to listen.
On the story side, the world building is strongly present, the pace very slow and a lot of time is spent on narrating mundane events (we could have imagined with a few hints/words). This is it the first part of a book I understand they split in several parts, so it ends in the middle of the beginning of the real story.
The solarpunk style and imagery is here, vivid, in a decorbonating world rigged with the consequences of climate change, with optimism and the science-fiction of a transitioning world. A big focus on every people's experience, like a post-modern worldview commands, that contributes to the pacing problems.

Here comes the solarpunk

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