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Victoria Lee

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May 09

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Victoria Lee grew up in Durham, North Carolina, where she spent her childhood writing ghost stories and fantasizing about attending boarding school. She has a Ph.D. in psychology, which she uses to overanalyze fictional characters and also herself. Lee is the author of A Lesson in Vengeance as well as The Fever King and its sequel, The Electric Heir. She lives in New York City with her partner, cat, and malevolent dog.

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Victoria Lee DARA. Dara is definitely my favorite character. I love Noam, but Dara definitely has his own special place in my heart. My favorite character to write…moreDARA. Dara is definitely my favorite character. I love Noam, but Dara definitely has his own special place in my heart. My favorite character to write, though, was Lehrer. He just has so many layers and so many different aspects to his agenda and it was a lot of fun to write someone who had all these layers of meaning and intent to everything he said and did.(less)
Victoria Lee It was definitely heavily inspired by the Regulator! I loved that store so much growing up. I went to school down the street for high school and used …moreIt was definitely heavily inspired by the Regulator! I loved that store so much growing up. I went to school down the street for high school and used to hang out there after classes let out.(less)
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A Lesson in Vengeance

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The Fever King (Feverwake, #1)

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“The question isn't whether magic is real. It's whether I can touch it without being consumed by it.”
Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

Ex Scientia Ultio
From knowledge comes vengeance.”
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“When I read books, the boundary between my world and others shifted. I could imagine other realities. I envisioned the tales so clearly that it was as if I lived them.”
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“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
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