"I’m dark matter. The universe inside me is full of something, and science can’t even shine a light on it. I feel like I’m mostly made of mysteries." It was slightly past 12 AM, on day I Lost Track Of My Book Ping-ponging Slump. I had been having a rough night and I was throwing a Hail Mary, just lo...
I can honestly say that I have never read a book like this before. I just finished Magonia and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. Aza is a 15 year old girl who is dying from a strange disease. She is drowning in air. She suddenly starts seeing ships in the sky and hears her name being called. T...
Quick review for a quick read. Dude, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I picked up Maria Dahvana Headley's "Magonia". Suffice to say, I'm quite impressed by it. I really didn't expect it to be this emotionally invested, intense, and imaginative read. Totally ended up enjoying the jou...
Hmm... It was sort of okay, but at the same time... I just couldn't stand Aza's narrative, and Jason got on my nerves as well after a while. The first 20% or so had a "Fault in Our Stars" feeling (snarky teenager who's dying beautifully of some incurable illness, so of course she has to think and be...
I’m not a huge fan of this book. It has great reviews on Goodreads, so maybe this is a case of “It’s not you, it’s me.” Aza has spent her entire life struggling to breathe. No doctor has been able to help her, and nobody can explain how she is still alive. A few days before her sixteenth birthday,...
Ugh. There is nothing more disappointing than having your very big book expectations fall flat. Magonia was, sadly, just that. Disappointing and really weird. Drawn by the beautiful cover and the blurb, I thought I was in for a much more different experience than what I got. This book had way more...
I read Magonia in one day… and that is not because I couldn’t put it down. It was because I wanted to put it down but I also wanted to see how it ended so I skimmed a few pages here and there to get to the ending faster. I just could not get into this book- I thought the main character was whiny, se...
“For the first time in my entire life, I have power. More than power. I feel like I belong. Like this is my ship. Like this is my country. Like this is my destiny.”I have so much respect for writers like Maria Dahvana Headley who are so immensely creative that they can create an entire world. There’...
I had mixed feelings about reading this one, but when Kara from Great Imaginations read it and loved it, I thought I needed to give it a try. Her tastes usually align to be pretty similar to me, and I was already intrigued…. So yeah. I read it. Thoughts: Ummmm This one really surprised...
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