Source: Purchased
Summary: (from Goodreads)
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?
NON-SPOILER REVIEW: So, from the beginning this book was very odd for me. I love the idea of the story and how it's about this girl who is suffering on earth from a sickness but in her own country she thrives and is even stronger than most. I love the relationship between the two main characters, Aza Ray and Jason. They are the very best of friends who know everything about each other and end up falling in love. For me, the book was a bit slow at the beginning. I had to get about a hundred and fifty pages in before I was into it, but I feel that if you push through then you will enjoy it the way that I did. This book is based off of real myths and I thought that was interesting. One of the main characters, Jason, was a little harder for me to understand. I felt like I had more of a hard time understanding him than I did Aza. This book is very complex and a bit confusing when you get to the point where she enters Magonia. Over all I think that this book is worth a read if your in the mood for something that is beautiful, inspiring and refreshing.
SPOILER REVIEW: Okay, so let me just start by saying that this book did surprise me a bit. To be honest I wasn't expecting to like it after I first started reading, because I just finished reading the Harry Potter series and any book following that have a hard time getting a good review. Honestly, I picked it up in the first place because the cover is beautiful. I did end up enjoying this book though, so let me start out talking about my favorite parts of the book.
Jason and Aza Ray's relationship. The whole time I'm reading this my heart is hurting for Jason because the girl he is in love with was just ripped away from him. Before Aza "died", I felt like an outsider looking in yelling at them to kiss already! They are in love with each other but both refuse to admit it to themselves. I was freaking out when they came so close to kissing, but the Eli burst in ruining the moment!
Also, the relationship between Aza and Dai is a strange one but a good one. At first I was confused because Aza was talking about how attracted she was to him and how she felt magnetized to him and I just wanted to say "What about Jason?!". In the end I think he was a great character and I understood him. I understand why he kept singing to make Aza flood the earth, under Zal's orders. He had nobody else, he had always been loyal to her since she took him in.
Probably my favorite part of this whole book is when Aza finds Caru and sets him free, and then he comes back in the end because he chooses her and she chooses him. I think Caru is the most beautiful part of this book.
I love how throughout this book, everyone keeps telling Aza that she is destined to save her people and the whole time you are thinking that she needs to save Magonia but in the end she saves the people that she loves on Earth because that's where her heart is and that's where she belongs.
There were a few parts that I didn't like about this book. I felt that I was very hard to imagine everything. The Magonians and the Rostrae were hard for me to picture in my mind. I don't feel that they were explained in enough detail. I think that Jason as a character was a bit hard to understand. I didn't get the thing where he kept reciting pi, and it was annoying to me. The last thing I didn't like was Zal. I know that she isn't supposed to be good and that's just how her character is, but I hated how she outright lied to Aza, how she executed Ley and called her a pirate and then was pirating herself, that was very hypocritical. I hated how she held most everyone one on the ship helping her, against their will.
Overall, this is a great read and I definitely recommend it, even if it is going slow at the beginning, I think it is worth it in the end.
Rating: I give this book 3/5 stars
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