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Magonia

Embark on a breathtaking fantasy adventure where a girl suffering from a mysterious illness discovers a world hidden above the clouds. This series blends magic and reality, introducing floating sky-ships and unexpected powers that transform the protagonist. As war looms between Earth and this celestial realm, she must confront her destiny and the fate of humanity. It's a compelling tale of courage, identity, and the complexities of love, set against a truly unique and imaginative backdrop.

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Magonia

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  1. 1

    Magonia

    • 320 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    3.6(17239)Add rating

    “Magonia is magical. A high-?ying, refresing, and literally out-of-the-blue fantasy with great characters, emotional depth, and a unique fantasy world that I never saw coming.”—Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen 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. 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? “Maria Davana 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

    Magonia
  2. 2

    Aerie

    • 320 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    3.5(2410)Add rating

    The stunning sequel to Maria Dahvana Headley’s critically acclaimed Magonia tells the story of one girl who must make an impossible choice between two families, two homes—and two versions of herself. Aza Ray is back on earth. Her boyfriend, Jason, is overjoyed. Her family is healed. She’s living a normal life, or as normal as it can be if you’ve spent the past year dying, waking up on a sky ship, and discovering that your song can change the world. As in, not normal. Part of Aza still yearns for the clouds, no matter how much she loves the people on the ground. When Jason’s paranoia over Aza’s safety causes him to make a terrible mistake, Aza finds herself a fugitive in Magonia, tasked with opposing her radical, bloodthirsty, recently escaped mother, Zal Quel, and her singing partner, Dai. She must travel to the edge of the world in search of a legendary weapon, the Flock, in a journey through fire and identity that will transform her forever. Told in Maria Headley’s trademark John Green–meets–Neil Gaiman voice, Aerie is sure to satisfy the many readers who can’t wait to return to the spellbinding world of Magonia.

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