The Last Stormlord: Book 1 of the Stormlord trilogy

The Last Stormlord  - Glenda Larke In a world wehre there is little water, water is currency, life, and the magic of this world is centered around generating and controlling water. Shale starts the story in a small village, at the bottom of the heap the power he has over water will change his life. Terelle is supposed to become a courtesan but resists that life and finds herself in the home of a painter, what she learns here could change everything too. The Stormlord is alone, surrounded by people with lesser power who want his place he is getting old and dying and without a successor he is wearing himself out trying to get water to the town. Questions are about to be asked about how come he is the last. It's interesting. Reading this while being in the middle of a strange drought myself I found a certain amount of resonance. Thinking to myself what it would be like if, instead of a water cut-off of 12 hours we had a 24 hour cut-off. The author does get into the mind of people who regard water as precious, of people who have to slog to get any and how at the end their bodies surrender their water for everyone else. There are some pretty nasty moments as the upper classes restrict more and more water due to the lack, leaving themselves with and others without. The story ends and I really did want to know what happens next.