
Magonia
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Narrated by:
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Therese Plummer
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Michael Crouch
“Maria Dahvana Headley is a firecracker: she’s whip smart with a heart, and she writes like a dream.” (Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of The Graveyard Book and Coraline Aza)
Ray Boyle 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 - but as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war between Magonia and Earth is coming. In Aza's hands lies fate of the whole of humanity—including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie?
Neil Gaiman’s Stardust meets John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars in this New York Times best-selling story about a girl caught between two worlds, two races, and two destinies.
Don’t miss Aerie, the stunning, highly anticipated sequel!
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A Beautiful story that speaks to the spirit
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Good job
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Amazing, imaginative fantastical story!
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Is there anything you would change about this book?
The plot is creative and the ending leaves room for more development of this interesting world. However, I was left with more questions than answers about the relationship between Magonia and earth, and also about Aza's relationship to both. It just seemed so far away from me, and too different to grasp.Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Therese Plummer and Michael Crouch ?
Michael did a great job; but as for Therese, there are times I just wanted her to stop! She made every character sound like a ball of uncontrolled emotion. I understand that the characters were thrown into some pretty challenging situations, but I don't understand why they always sounded like they were barely holding it together. Aza's character was the worst, but I quickly realized that this was Therese's performance style when all other characters she represented exuded the same thing.Do you think Magonia needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
Yes and no. Yes because the world was so underdeveloped. She spent more time on the character development and the visual -- which was great -- but that doesn't help me connect to the world at a deeper level like I would have preferred, especially one so different as Magonia. No because I don't want to read another teenage drama at this level. If there could please be a little more depth beyond the barely pubescent teenage emotional state in the characters, I could enjoy it a little more.Any additional comments?
Overall, I don't think I would read a sequel to this book. It was just like I put in my headline -- too much teenage drama. I don't think I can listen to one more recital of the number pi from the main male character, or one more iteration of ((()) ))(( {}{{{{}} symbols to represent words because of angsty, emotional, communication issues.Too much teenage drama
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New and refreshing
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It probably would still have touched me deeply if I'd read it, but Therese Plummer's narration was awesome! The breathlessness, the love, the youthfulness all are there in perfection. I could see her in myself a few decades ago, and in my students now. Michael Crouch does a fine job too, though his voice for the heroine is not as good as Plummer's, and he has a much smaller part to read.
Young love is still real love for all its immaturity. But this is more than Romeo and Juliet--it touches on, without really discussing, family love and adoption love as well as bonds of blood. It also caresses what it means to really know someone, someone's heart and soul, and recognizing these no matter what form someone has. It allows these many forms of non-sexual love to transcend all problems and situations.
The magical, fantasy aspects are something most young people dream about, and wish would happen to them. As I said, it got a little weird for me, but I got over it and thoroughly enjoyed the book. It was very emotional and uplifting.
fantastic YA novel!!
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This story came to life through the exquisite performance of ms Plummer! There are actors on screen that convey less emotion.
Wonderful and a lovely story as well!
Recommended!
Therese Plummer excels
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AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING
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Loved it!
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i cant say enough so again AWESOME JOB MARIA.
Awesome
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