FanLit occasionally (by arrangement) republish my reviews. This was a book I particularly liked.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t finish the sequel, which was all the angst all the time. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood for it.
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Magonia: What YA should be like – Readers’ average rating: Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley Come for the wonderful voice (and attitude) of Aza Ray, the teenage narrator. Stay for a suspenseful plot, vivid characters, and fantastical worldbuilding. Magonia (2015) is one of those books that, while still partway through the sample, I knew I wanted to buy. It’s difficult to create a truly original character voice, but Maria Dahvana Headley pulls it off with Aza Ray. She even pulls it off again…
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