Date Published: April 28, 2015
Published By: Harper Collins
Pages: 309
Edition Read: ebook
Dates Read: 8/18/17-8/22/17
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Synopsis: 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?
My Thoughts: I thought this book was so strange. The writing is pretty and the premise is so interesting, but the story itself is so bizarre. You don’t get a huge amount of back story on Magonia and Aza is basically just thrown into this new life and expected to fill her spot in the world. It was all very bizarre and I’m interested in continuing on to the final book in the duology but probably not for a while. I thought that Aza was a great character overall. She was dying and they didn’t sugar coat that fact. Aza very much understood she was dying and accepted it. I thought that the illness aspect was very realistic. I love Jason almost more than Aza. Hopefully the second book isn’t as strange as this one was! Also, this cover is stunning!!!
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