The Fever King

Plot is borrowed from other, better books like someone forming a letter out of cuttings from magazines. The virus-awakening-magic-for-some was interesting except it's repeated over and over that you can develop multiple abilities if you work at it enough and the main character never questions anything at all about officials or motives for anyone beyond the surface stories he's given, even though his background should mean the opposite. 

Very slow paced plot plodding along until about 80% and then it's like the author realized “oh I'd better wrap this up, there's no time to have characters make decisions that make sense.” 

Yes there's some stale yet alcohol soaked crumbs of bi rep offered, but there are better books for that - ones that are interesting and have believable relationship development and characters that are developed at all.