Magonia (Magonia, 1)

“Maria Dahvana Headley is a firecracker: she’s whip smart with a heart, and she writes like a dream.” —Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of The Graveyard Book and Coraline
#1 New York Times bestseller Maria Dahvana Headley’s soaring sky fantasy Magonia is now in paperback!
Aza Ray Boyle is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live.
So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.
Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who's always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world—and found, by another. Magonia.
Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power—but as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war between Magonia and Earth is coming. In Aza's hands lies fate of the whole of humanity—including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie?
Neil Gaiman’s Stardust meets John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars in this New York Times bestselling story about a girl caught between two worlds, two races, and two destinies.
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Community Reviews
The world of Magonia is so fantastic! Itâs unique, itâs intriguing. There are so many parts of it that are offered to the reader and yet⦠thereâs one part that created a barrier between me and the world: the intangibility of it. Much of the world was explained in vague concepts. Itâs like the author was going for âmysterious and alluringâ and landed somewhere in âconfusing-villeâ. Really disappointed with that because there was so much potential for the world.
Racing to Catch Up
This story took forever to get going. It wasnât until 1/3 of the way through the book that it actually had a plot and I struggled getting to that point. Itâs because of this initial slow pace, though, that the last 2/3 of the book felt like a scramble to catch up. Yet, even with the race to catch up, the scenes dragged. Thus, it felt like a constant back and forth between fast and sluggish.
So⦠the protagonist
The protagonist of the story, Aza Ray, is annoying as all get out. I understand sheâs a teenager and sheâs gonna have a horribly morbid outlook on life since sheâs been dying her entire life, but still. Sheâs overly-brooding. Sheâs terribly naive. And sheâs self-centered to boot. Frankly, I couldnât stand reading from her point of view.
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