The best concept in the world could be let down by crap characters. On a scale of good to fucking awesome, how fab is this concept? The answer is SERIOUSLY FUCKING AWESOME. Witchings are both marginalised and admired, co-opted into a government system which seeks to control them even as they struggle to wield magic without tipping over the edge of infection …and going fevermad. Carolinia is led by Calix Lehrer – a magnetic and magnanimous freedom fighter who led the witchings to bloody victory, before ceding his titles to ensure a peaceful transfer of democratic power. New states rise from the ashes – Carolinia, Atlantia, York. What follows is genocide, nuclear war, and by 2020, the USA has collapsed. In the early 2000s, a magical virus sweeps the globe, killing millions and leaving a handful with powers – witchings – in its wake. The Fever King is an incredible mesh between fantasy, sci-fi, and bitingly on-point political commentary.

Please note: this review is not spoiler free, and it discusses some awful stuff. And all I can say is, GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! By the time my copy arrived, I’d already finished the ebook. I’ve been drooling over the synopsis for The Fever King, and now it’s been released EARLY on Amazon First Reads! My weekend was sleep deprived and hyper with excitement. But then he meets the minister’s son-cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful-and the way forward becomes less clear. He accepts the minister’s offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. 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.

The fever king victoria lee