Title:
Magonia
Magonia
Author:
Maria Dahvana Headley
★★★☆☆
3 out of 5 stars
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—and as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war is coming. Magonia and Earth are on the cusp of a reckoning. And in Aza’s hands lies the fate of the whole of humanity—including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie?
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—and as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war is coming. Magonia and Earth are on the cusp of a reckoning. And in Aza’s hands lies the fate of the whole of humanity—including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie?
If I were to describe this book in three words, only three words, they would be: original, magical and weird. Yeah, weird. For you see, Magonia tells the story of 15 year old Aza, a girl whom has suffered from a mysterious lung disease, so mysterious it was named after her, and it makes it hard for her to... live. But one day Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, a ship from where someone calling for her.
So you have this girl, and she is dying, and everybody around her knows this for a fact, and you go for the first few chapter without thinking you actually picked this book up from the science fiction shelf, and it deceives you with paragraphs such as:
My dad is fading out. All I can see are my own eyelashes and my eye own eyelids, and somehow, also, my own brain, all the pathways inside it, everything dark and narrow, and getting narrower, bookshelves closing in, books crushed, falling into muddled piles, pages crushed, words mangled, and me, running through it all, trying to get out before the walls collapse.
But then it pulls you into this fantastic, magical world full of bird like singing humans, floating ships, flying whales and friggin' epic flying sharks. The premise itself is so fresh -weird- and different from all the dystopian YA novels we hear about nowadays that is worth a try if you are into weird stuff.
So you have this girl, and she is dying, and everybody around her knows this for a fact, and you go for the first few chapter without thinking you actually picked this book up from the science fiction shelf, and it deceives you with paragraphs such as:
My dad is fading out. All I can see are my own eyelashes and my eye own eyelids, and somehow, also, my own brain, all the pathways inside it, everything dark and narrow, and getting narrower, bookshelves closing in, books crushed, falling into muddled piles, pages crushed, words mangled, and me, running through it all, trying to get out before the walls collapse.
But then it pulls you into this fantastic, magical world full of bird like singing humans, floating ships, flying whales and friggin' epic flying sharks. The premise itself is so fresh -weird- and different from all the dystopian YA novels we hear about nowadays that is worth a try if you are into weird stuff.
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