Friday 56 and Book Beginning: The Fever King (Feverwake #1) by Victoria Lee || Friday 50/50: Favorite/Least Favorite Dystopian World You'd Want to Live In

Please join us over at RoseCityReader every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author’s name.

This is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice
These are the rules:

1. Grab a book, any book.

2. Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader.

3. Find any sentence (or a few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you.

4. Post it.

5. Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post.

Synopsis:

   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. 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.

   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. 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. But then he meets the minister’s son—cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful—and the way forward becomes less clear.

   Caught 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.

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Book Beginning:
March 4, 2018
Calix, 
As I write this, they're packing up the fighter jets. Your virus gets packed into the belly in these crates. Frozen, of course, so the magic doesn't get loose while they're in the air.
56%:
Noam got the distinct sense that Dara swallowed  something else with all that whiskey. His pupils were dilated.

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50/50 Friday is a new weekly link-up hosted by Carrie @ The Butterfly Reader and Laura @ Blue Eye Books.  Every week they have a new topic featuring two sides of the same coin - you share a book that suits each category and link up on the hosts' blogs.

Favorite

While not my favorite Dystonian series, but with a 50/50 chance I'll have superpowers, also the chance to maybe being besties with Kenji, why not?

No Thanks

There is just nothing about this world that is even remotely appealing. Everything is horrible. Even if you live in the Capital things are horrible, you just don't know it. In the Capital people bet on the lives of children for fun, and in the Districts people send their kids to die and most of people starve. Punished for decades  over something they didn't even do.