I found that to be very interesting, especially as learning more about physics etc. for Noam it was computers/hacking, which explains why he is a technopath.

The first, instinctive power is related to what you knew the most of before getting infected.

You need to know about what you do (math, physics etc.) when you use an ability to pull it off. They basically have one ‘presenting’ power that they got after surviving the virus and it is connected to knowledge. I love that the witchings and their abilities were connected to science and knowledge, as this is not always the case when it comes to a magic system. The survivors are left with new powers because they have successfully build antibodies and therefore survived, even though no one has been able to use them to find a cure yet. The heart of the worldbuilding are the Witchings, powerful humans that have been infected with a virus that kills almost everyone else. Governments didn’t have to listen to the people until the people made it hurt not to listen.” Thank you to Skyscape and Netgalley for providing me with a digital Arc in exchange for an honest Review! All quotes featured are from the Arc and therefore subject to changes. ** for a more detailed, longer list see the website of the author!!!

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. 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. Representation 🌷 Jewish Bisexual Biracial MC, Gay PoC Love Interest, Trauma CW’s: Violence, Abuse, Death, Suicide, Drug/Alcohol Abuse, Intergenerational Trauma/Genocide*

The fever king