It has been almost four months since I first read The Electric Heir, as I was somehow the luckiest person ever and managed to snag a NetGalley ARC. It was like Dara had been shot but hadn’t realised yet, was bleeding out. Sooner or later, playing double agent might cost Noam his life.īefore beginning this review, please note that Victoria Lee has a large list of content warnings for this novel – it is darker than The Fever King so please take note before reading (you can find the list here). Dara fears Noam has only gotten himself more deeply entangled in Lehrer’s web. But Dara’s attempts to ally himself with Noam prove that their methods for defeating Lehrer are violently misaligned.
Meanwhile Dara Shirazi returns to Carolinia, his magic stripped by the same vaccine that saved his life. So he must keep playing the role of Lehrer’s protégé until he can steal enough vaccine to stop the virus. If Lehrer realizes Noam has evaded his control-and that Noam is plotting against him-Noam’s dead. Now that Noam remembers the full extent of Lehrer’s crimes, he’s determined to use his influence with Lehrer to bring him down for good. But despite Lehrer’s image as a progressive humanitarian leader, Noam has finally remembered the truth that Lehrer forced him to forget-that Lehrer is responsible for the deadly magic infection that ravaged Carolinia.
Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor.
Goodreads blurb: In the sequel to The Fever King, Noam Álvaro seeks to end tyranny before he becomes a tyrant himself.
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