Much like many other YA novels, the plot centers around Noam, a teenager who suddenly discovers his powers and goes off to an elite school of sorts to then cultivate those powers while he also struggles with feeling like an outside. This book’s biggest highlight is its reaching out to victims to let us know that we are never alone, and that, despite all the helplessness and despair we feel, there continues to be a strength inside us. They are not victims because they are weak, they are victims because the world is full of unkind people who will prey on anyone.
In The Fever King, many of the victims of the several types of abuses/trauma explored in the novel are some of the strongest, if not the strongest people in society. We often associate victimhood with weakness–that acknowledging your being a victim is equating yourself to being a weak person. On top of shedding light on everything wrong with the USA today, The Fever King is also a tribute to victims. It seems a little absurd at first–The Carolinas becoming their own nation and seceding? What?–but the way Lee writes it actually makes perfect sense, regardless of whether the book is a political critique or not. Lee manages to create a dystopian American landscape that somehow still manages to capture current (and past) American and foreign politics. Not knowing what I was getting into really set me up for a roller coaster ride of my life, but I think the experience would have been the same even if I did read the synopsis beforehand.īecause The Fever King hits hard.
I got the book because the pre-order was on sale on Amazon and people seemed to be raving about it. 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.Ĭonfession time: I had no idea what The Fever King actually about when I started reading it–I mean I hadn’t even read the summary. 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. Summary: 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.
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