Great characters, political storyline
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Offshored was my first book by DC Downey/Chris Myers and I truly enjoyed it. Both main characters are very likeable (not only) because of their imperfections. Savannah struggles with insecurities based on her autism and mixed ethnical background. Although she is very smart she sometimes makes stupid or rash decisions. Cole's over-protectiveness of Savannah often seems like he doesn't trust her abilities but can be explained by his previous traumatic experience. Ultimately he is a very good partner for Savannah whom she can trust.
The story contains many technical details and although I'm not a science geek it wasn't hard for me to understand what was going on. Tesla's inventions are really fascinating and I loved how they were connected with the story.
The author tackles political, economical and social topics like racism, sexism, companies who offshore their businesses to Asia where they can exploit cheap laborers and the sometimes sinister acts of certain agencies to gain more power and/or to hush up things. In my opinion it is always good when a story isn't simply entertaining but also used to expose and criticize grievances.
I'll certainly look out for the next Kinlaw/Bainbridge book.