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One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence

Brief synopsis (no spoilers): (I'm taking this from Amazon, because I didn't get far before I quit reading.) "Prodigy son of a famed mathematician, Nick Hayes is not your average fifteen-year-old. Especially when you consider that he has just discovered he is dying of leukemia. But when an alluring new girl, Mia, joins his group of Dungeons & Dragons–playing friends, he realizes that life might be giving him one last throw of the dice. Just then, however, his world is turned upside down when he meets a strangely familiar man whose claims about Nick’s future are too harrowing—and unbelievable—to ignore. Soon everything he thought was true, from the laws of physics to the trajectory of his own life, is proved otherwise." Category: Science Fiction Why I chose this book: Amazon First Reads My personal opinion: I stopped on page 45. There were four or five f-words in that amount of text. I don't recommend this book to anyone. Warnings Language: bad Violence: unknow

The Fever King by Victoria Lee

Brief synopsis (no spoilers): (I'm taking this from Amazon, because I didn't get far before I quit reading.) "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." Category : Science Fiction Why I chose this book : Amazon First Reads My personal opinion : I stopped on page 33. There were three f-words in that amount of text. I don't recommend this book to anyone. Warnings Language: bad Violence: unknown "Adult" situations: unknown Death: yes, including major character(s) Movie rating equivalent : R, for language Protagonist description : Noam has magic and survived the process Point of view of story : Third person, focused on Noam Book length : Medium-long Story flow : Decent, a little ch