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Reviewed by Alice H. for Readers' Favorite
"American Fever" by Peter Hall is a very well-written book about a pandemic virus that threatens civilization as we know it. It is told through a 225-day blog by a writer known only as "Count Blogula" and the reader only knows the characters through the eyes of the blogger who describes himself as a "social libertarian." There is an advanced virus infecting citizens and many people attempt to help in various ways. Count Blogula does this through providing information and by advertising and selling equipment in his blogs. For this reader, the ongoing references and websites were highly distracting and it took away from the suspense buildup of the story as a whole.
As the strength of the virus progresses, it begins to take captives. First come strangers and then the blogger's friends. The city is then perilously close to becoming totally ineffective and then government fails the people it is entrusted to protect. Finally, the virus takes captive the writer.
The commentary by the blogger is amusing and informative but if one is not a blogger by interest, the format becomes intrusive to the plot. This reader would have preferred a futuristic adventure story in which character development was at a greater depth and distractions were kept minimal. In other words, a typical first person narrative with in-depth descriptions would have better captured my interest. That said, this was a highly amusing book in which the present blogging trend meets the potential of future disasters and it is basically a good match for the reader.
