It has the weirdness. It is really freaking weird. It is the fantastic kind of weird. |
Aza Ray 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—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?
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?
I have definitely not read a book as original as this one for a long time. (maybe I haven't even read a book that original before, but let's keep it between you and I) Flying ships? Feathered population? A whole new world? We have to give it to the author for being that bold, it's just another trend in YA that no one visits new ideas but recycle ideas at a terrifying rate.
We read angel books and for the most of it, their existence was based on bible sayings. We read about witches who burn, vampires who were damned. I couldn't count with my 10 fingers how many were based off the same idea and adapts the same concept. It's natural to want to appeal to the audience with a hot topic but what would sell hotter, is really originality, to me. No, I'm not saying I despise books with witches and half-angels or anything. There are some fantastic reads out there but in the premise aspect, it wasn't entirely intriguing. I need something realistic and entertaining, a new idea I have never heard of delivered in a beautiful way, that really is what would arouse interest for me.
This concept of using a book to tell me the littlest fascinating discovery in history is completely new to me. Did you know Magonia was based on a real event in the past? In France 815, sailors claimed to have come from a ship in the sky and were literally screaming that they came from a realm called Magonia.
How COOL is that?
How many people could tell you that? This is real research. Could there be ships in the sky we are just not capable of seeing? Just imagining the possibilities were already entertainment enough, a world in the sky where clouds were their sea and we live 'underwater' to them. Oh hell yes.
So, here's a rough scope of the book: Our main character Aza Ray has pretty much been choking in thin air or perhaps drowning would be a better word. She's most peculiar case that scientists haven't been able to solve.
We read angel books and for the most of it, their existence was based on bible sayings. We read about witches who burn, vampires who were damned. I couldn't count with my 10 fingers how many were based off the same idea and adapts the same concept. It's natural to want to appeal to the audience with a hot topic but what would sell hotter, is really originality, to me. No, I'm not saying I despise books with witches and half-angels or anything. There are some fantastic reads out there but in the premise aspect, it wasn't entirely intriguing. I need something realistic and entertaining, a new idea I have never heard of delivered in a beautiful way, that really is what would arouse interest for me.
This concept of using a book to tell me the littlest fascinating discovery in history is completely new to me. Did you know Magonia was based on a real event in the past? In France 815, sailors claimed to have come from a ship in the sky and were literally screaming that they came from a realm called Magonia.
How COOL is that?
How many people could tell you that? This is real research. Could there be ships in the sky we are just not capable of seeing? Just imagining the possibilities were already entertainment enough, a world in the sky where clouds were their sea and we live 'underwater' to them. Oh hell yes.
So, here's a rough scope of the book: Our main character Aza Ray has pretty much been choking in thin air or perhaps drowning would be a better word. She's most peculiar case that scientists haven't been able to solve.
I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries. |
This mysterious disease is incurable, they says she's going to die like at 10 years old but oh no she didn't die so they say 16, it's definitely 16. So Aza, in the meantime just spends life as she wanted to, like anyone with a terminal disease.
I maybe semi-kind-of-know how to drive. I learned three months ago. my dad beside me in the passenger seat, and my mom in the backseat, and both of them swearing they trusted me, even as I crashed into our garbage cans. |
And then one day, she woke up in a new world where she is a sickly human no more but well, a powerful creature. She discovers her past and the truth behind her illness that has tormented her for years. And she is faced with a question: does she want to go back down to earth where she is a sickly human, suffocated by the illness everyday until she dies or does she want to stay up there where she is the most powerful being and can actually make some phenomenal contribution?
Weird stuff happened and things you would basically never expect in YA novels. In case you are wondering, there's no Mary Sue here, this premise is just so intriguing there ain't no place for a Mary Sue.
Here, we deal with internal conflict, struggles and loyalties. It is realistic in that sense, falling into the support of whoever was there to catch us and coping with change, even with ourselves. However, I'm not exactly pumped for the sequel because I just think this book closed up pretty well, I would be happier to just leave it here. Now, without the element of surprise and fascination, I hope the sequel would continue to impress me.
Many things were just unexpected here, I seriously never thought I would read a book about birds. (yes, I swear I never did) I expect the love triangle that didn't happen and I fell in love with the romance I didn't expect to adore. I think of the millions of ways different people look cute together, and I didn't expect these two to be one of them. Words can do such amazing things.
Weird stuff happened and things you would basically never expect in YA novels. In case you are wondering, there's no Mary Sue here, this premise is just so intriguing there ain't no place for a Mary Sue.
Here, we deal with internal conflict, struggles and loyalties. It is realistic in that sense, falling into the support of whoever was there to catch us and coping with change, even with ourselves. However, I'm not exactly pumped for the sequel because I just think this book closed up pretty well, I would be happier to just leave it here. Now, without the element of surprise and fascination, I hope the sequel would continue to impress me.
Many things were just unexpected here, I seriously never thought I would read a book about birds. (yes, I swear I never did) I expect the love triangle that didn't happen and I fell in love with the romance I didn't expect to adore. I think of the millions of ways different people look cute together, and I didn't expect these two to be one of them. Words can do such amazing things.
"You hold no horrors for me." |
And if you're ready, get ready to fly with Aza.