Lehrer also mentors another student, Dara Shirazi, who is brooding and damaged in ways that Noam can’t quite grasp. And the best part is that Lehrer seems to have the same idea. Noam sees Lehrer’s offer as his chance to take down the current government, which has relentlessly persecuted refugees like his family. Lehrer, the man who brought down the United States government over 100 years ago, currently serves as the Minister of Defense in the kingdom of Carolinia. The virus that kills his father makes Noam a powerful ‘witching’ and he’s personally recruited by Calix Lehrer, the most powerful witching alive. THE FEVER KING begins when a magical outbreak sweeps through the slums of the Durham, leaving Noam Álvaro is the lone survivor. However, Lee’s strong prose and stronger characterization elevate it past a mere statement to something more. Instead THE FEVER KING is interested in politics as the mechanism used to manage difficult, international situations like the refugee crisis at the heart of the story. I think the question of how topical a novel is a little wearying (especially given the long slog to publication) and I want to be clear that when I say political, I don’t mean ‘Democrat’ or ‘Republican’. THE FEVER KING is unabashedly political in its exploration of power, identity, and sexual abuse it certainly won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. So when I characterize this novel as dark and unsettling, I have to believe that Lee would take that as a complement. But then he meets the minister’s son-cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful-and the way forward becomes less clear.Ĭaught 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.To borrow a phrase from The Princess Bride, Victoria Lee isn’t writing to the death in THE FEVER KING - she’s writing to the pain.
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. 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. 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.
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. Featured in Seventeen, The Verge, Hypable, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, The Nerd Daily, Booklist, and SyFy Wire.
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