The Fever King (Feverwake #1)

Author(s): Victoria Lee

Young Adult Fiction | LGBTQI+

In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia. 

The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks -- refugees Carolinia routinely deports with vicious efficiency. Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister's offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. But then he meets the minister's son -- cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful -- and the way forward becomes less clear. 

Caught between his purpose and his heart, Noam must decide who he can trust and how far he's willing to go in pursuit of the greater good. 

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"A plague as scary as Stephen King, and a romance as complicated and compelling as all my favorites." - Sarah Rees Brennan

"My kind of sci-fi: sharp, smart, and political, with something important to say about our own world. Lee offers a fresh twist on magic that makes The Fever King feel totally new and unique. I was absorbed in Noam’s world from the first page—and was dreading leaving it by the last." - Natasha Ngan

"Deliciously fierce and unforgiving, Victoria Lee’s The Fever King is a merciless story that fans of V.E. Schwab’s Vicious should not miss. I will never be over this book." - Ashley Poston

"Brutal yet thoughtful, The Fever King is a nuanced, unblinking study of the complex structures of power in a world where magic itself is a disease that few survive. Lee’s science-based, gritty world and sky-high stakes meld perfectly with the timely political intrigue of this book’s twisting, devastating plot." - Emily Suvada

Victoria Lee grew up in Durham, North Carolina, where she spent twelve ascetic years as a vegetarian before discovering spicy chicken wings are, in fact, a delicacy. She’s been a state finalist competitive pianist, a hitchhiker, a pizza connoisseur, an EMT, an expat in China and Sweden, and a science doctoral student. She’s also a bit of a snob about fancy whisky.

Victoria
writes early in the morning, then spends the rest of the day trying to impress her border collie puppy and make her experiments work.

She lives in Pennsylvania.

General Fields

  • : 9781542040402
  • : Amazon Publishing
  • : Amazon Publishing
  • : 0.385554
  • : December 2018
  • : 20.80 cmmm X 14.00 cmmm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Victoria Lee
  • : Paperback
  • : 1903
  • : en
  • : 813.6
  • : 384