I love cities in the sky and pirate ships sailing among the clouds. I should have been the core audience for this. Don’t even get me started on the stormsharks that came in from the sidelines hung around and then left posing no real threat and contributing nothing to the world building. I didn’t understand the squall whales that were actually clouds…and then the same time the bats that were sails. I still don’t know what the bird people look like. Aza is constantly narrating, talking, rambling, feeling, and you can’t see the world through it. Which is the next thing You can’t see the plot for pure rambling. It wasn’t as poetic as she wanted it to be, it just didn’t belong in the stream of consciousness narration that took place. I appreciate the exploration of punctuation to convey emotion and the nod to the special teenage language that exists, but this just did not work. Word for word, or rather character for character: Sounds amazing right – we got a little sass, we got an epic fight between good and evil, a young protagonist struggling to find her place in the role this new world has built for her. And she is meant to save the Magonian people. She is actually Magonian, a bird-hybrid people who drown in Earth air. Her disease is mysterious and then she sees a ship in the sky and then she dies.īut it turns out she was only sick because she was never meant to be human and the ship is actually part of her real home, Magonia.
Aza is your run of the mill quirky dying girl with a best friend she’s kind of in love with. I hated it, I was bored out of my mind – but the cover’s really pretty, so I guess that’s something.
I mean… Maria Dahvana Headley seems like a wonderful person and I feel truly awful for saying this, but Magonia is a terrible book, it is unbelievable, boringly crafted and the structure of the story is completely imbalanced. I feel like that should somehow be review enough. There is an actual sharknado in this book.
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