Written in the eighth century, the Annals of Ulster document people’s accounts of ships sailing the skies. Headley introduces medieval Irish texts called the Annals of Ulster by way of her characters. The reason Aza could not thrive with the humans-or ‘drowners,’ as Magonians call them-was that their air quality was insufficient.Īlthough the fantasy world of Magonia is fictional, there is a historical basis. In Magonia, Aza meets her biological mother, Zal Quel, captain of the ship Amina Pennarum who requires her help to rescue Magonians from starvation. After she “succumbs” to her disease, Aza ascends to the heavens and enters Magonia: a mystical city of ships, where the skies are the seas. In Aza's hands lies fate of the whole of humanity-including the boy who loves her.Described as Neil Gaiman’s Stardust meets John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Magonia tells the story of almost-sixteen-year-old Aza Ray Boyle, who suffers from a debilitating and mysterious respiratory condition which hinders her activity. Better, she has immense power-but as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war between Magonia and Earth is coming.
In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Magonia.Ībove the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. Aza is lost to our world-and found, by another. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.
But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. 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. 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.
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