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title: "The Fever: A Novel"
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# The Fever: A Novel

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Compelling Look At Teenage Girlhood
  

*by G***M on Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2022*

I might have had smoother skin and been much thinner, but I wouldn't go back to being a teenage girl and feeling all those feelings again for anything. It's such a confusing and heady place to be, and Megan Abbott's The Fever really digs into the murky territory that friendships at that age can turn into. Deenie Nash and Lise Daniels have been best friends since they were small, but things are starting to change. They've recently started hanging out with Gabby, who a parent would probably euphemistically describe as coming from "a troubled home". And Lise has grown from a cute little kid into a pretty teenager. This has not escaped notice by Deenie, or her older brother Eli (himself the subject of significant attention for his looks), or even her father Tom, a teacher at the high school. This is all putting strain on Deenie and Lise's friendship, and then one day during class, out of nowhere, Lise falls out of her chair and has a seizure.This alone is troubling, but then Gabby has a seizure too. One girl having a mysterious medical episode in a small town is cause for concern. Two is cause for alarm, especially as the doctors can provide no answers. Deenie thinks it might have been caused by a lake, rumored to be unclean, that all the girls spent time in together shortly before the episodes began. She worries that she might be next. Parents want to protect their daughters, start looking for a culprit. Hysteria starts to build as yet another girl is stricken, much of it focusing on the HPV vaccinations that the school mandated for the girls. The entire Nash family find themselves drawn further and further into the mystery and when it's finally unraveled, it's a doozy.I won't spoil anything, but the real villain of this book is teenage sexuality. Specifically, teenage girls having sex. That's what the real terror of the parents over the HPV vaccine is driven by, the idea that their daughters might be sexually active. But it's not just the parental fear. The book is steeped in sex in a very realistically teenage way: girls worrying about who's having it, who isn't, if the boy you like is sleeping with someone, if you think he might want to sleep with you, wanting to do it, not wanting to do it. For all I know, boys probably have the same kinds of thoughts, but having been a girl, I know that for all of the innocence that's attributed to female-shaped persons, they are often consumed with questions of sex. Like Deenie with Lise and Gabby, you measure yourself against your friends: who's the desirable one? Who's the innocent? Who's the slut?Thematically, this is a potent work. Abbott beautifully captures the atmosphere of small town paranoia and the thrill and terror of being what Britney Spears would call not a girl, not yet a woman. But reading this book had its frustrations as well: the tension ratcheted up too high, too soon, leaving it nowhere to really go once things got really dramatic. The plot felt slightly underbaked and the pacing was kind of stop and start. And I thought having the dad, Tom, as a main character didn't really work. I appreciated the inclusion of Eli, the perspective on teenage boys and sex made the book as a whole feel more balanced, but Tom didn't add much for me. All together, I think this was an interesting, well-written novel and I'd recommend it if teenage psychological thriller is a genre you enjoy!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Another page-turner from Abbott
  

*by A***P on Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2024*

This is another can't put it down book from Megan Abbott. She skillfully captures the adolescent drama, angst, and inner turmoil about being accepted, wondering if they're "normal", tragic unrequited love, and complicated relationships with parents. This book has a plot you can believe could happen tomorrow, or maybe has already started in your town - and that's scary. Abbott drew from an actual case in New York, where the hysteria insured there will always be doubts about what really happened. Her book is fiction, but very well written - an enjoyable read and a subject matter that keeps you pondering (and worrying) long after.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Worth every word!
  

*by L***Y on Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2014*

Before reading 'The Fever', I wasn't sure it was going to be for me. Set in high school with a teen-aged girl as a protagonist, I was thinking I might not be able to relate. I'm a man, and I'm not over the hill, but I can see the peak.Glad I was wrong.The Fever takes place from the perspective of Deenie Nash, a girl coping with the transitions of high school, her older brother, local hockey star Eli, and her father Tom, a science teacher at Dryden High.When Lise Daniels, a member of Deenie's inner circle of friends, begins to contort and convulse in high school, sending her to the hospital in a coma, it sets off a chain reaction in the other girls in the school. From rapid blinking and paralysis to hallucinations, the school, and the town, are driven into a frenzy to discover the cause.You can't appreciate the insanity of a story unless you can find yourself firmly inside of it, and here is where Megan Abbott shines. Her sculpting of the Nash family; the tenacity that Deenie shows as she tries to hold onto her two best friends - Lise and Gabby Bishop. The aloofness that even a popular guy like Eli Nash feels, subtly expressed and in conjunction with the aloofness his and Deenie's father Tom faces as he tries to find the new boundaries he must manage with their becoming adults. And overall, the rush, by the town, to assign blame for what is happening n the absence of real answers.Abbott does an exemplary job of introducing larger issues - vaccinations, fracking, pollution - into the narrative without the narrative voice taking a spotlight to those things. She lets the characters do that.If the point of a great novel is to throw the reader out of their comfort zone, challenge them, and have them glad they pulled through at the end, then The Fever is a great novel.So I would ask myself if this appeals more a young adult crowd or a general crowd. After reading it, I have to say both. And I recommend it.

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