![]() Trauma lingers, it can weave its way through our lives and into the lives of our children and our communities after we are gone. I loved this aspect of the book, though it was also emotionally confronting at times. The Fever King explores trauma and how people react to it, in their current lives and in an intergenerational sense. ![]() I didn’t want him to lose himself on the path that was set before him, and as the plot progressed kept coming back to a question: does the end justify the means to get there? It’s hard to know sometimes if the end justifies the means, or if we’ve lost ourselves in the process or merely just changed as people. Noam must ask himself critical questions about how far he is willing to go for what he knows is right, and how to even begin doing that. ![]() Noam must navigate being a migrant, going from shunned to suddenly valued by the state of Carolinia. He wakes the sole survivor of a virus that has killed his parents, and has left him with magical abilities, that are now highly sought after. The Fever King follows the journey of Noam Álvaro, a son of undocumented migrants living in an alternative United States. At the beginning, I thought I knew what kind of shape the plot was taking – I didn’t, and that was somewhat refreshing. ![]() Victoria Lee’s The Fever King takes you on an unexpected journey of twists and turns. ![]()
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