Hidden Power

Charlotte Powers #3

by Ben White

How far would you go to know the truth?

I woke up with this thing on my wrist, the thing I'm using to write this, I know it's called an Opal but I don't know HOW I know that. I don't even really know why I'm writing, except that I feel like I have to--and that maybe it'll help me figure things out. I can't get anything straight inside my head, everything's fuzzy and it's difficult to focus. Edges keep slipping away.

I'm in a ... maze. Or a prison. Everything's perfectly black and white--the colours, I mean, not the situation. Huh, this situation is anything BUT black and white. I'm wearing a dress, for a start, explain that! It was probably really pretty before it got all torn and dirty, I don't know how, it was like that when I woke up. I'm not in such good shape either, I'm bruised and aching and I've got weird scratches all over my arms and my left eye is a little swollen--I can see myself in the reflection of my Opal's screen. I can see myself, and I know my face, it's familiar to me, but ... but ...

... but I don't know who I am ...

"Hidden Power" is the third book in the Charlotte Powers series.

167 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 10, 2011

About the author

Aotearoan human. Writes a bit. Enjoys things sometimes.

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading the story, but I was nervous about the amount of foreshadowing and unreliable-narrator and illusion-magic going on in the background. An awful lot of mysterious happenings got marked "to be explained later". If everything actually does get explained later, I'm making a note to come back and change to 5 stars.

[Dao Uyen · Rating 3 out of 5]

i like this book ^-^