Saturday 30 May 2015

Stacking the Shelves (#22)



It's Saturday and so it's time for Stacking the Shelves!
Here is my haul from this week:


Description from Goodreads

Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga.

Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal girl—is born with the wings of a bird.

In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world, ill-prepared for what she might discover and naïve to the twisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her grows until the night of the Summer Solstice celebration.

That night, the skies open up, rain and feathers fill the air, and Ava’s quest and her family’s saga build to a devastating crescendo.

First-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mythology of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically, exquisitely human.
 


Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley

Description from Goodreads

Maria Dahvana Headley's soaring YA debut is a fiercely intelligent, multilayered fantasy where Neil Gaiman's Stardust meets John Green'sThe Fault in Our Stars in a story about a girl caught between two worlds . . . two races . . . and two destinies.

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?


I just love magical realism.

10 comments:

  1. These look and sound interesting. I hope you love them when you get a chance to read them.

    Grace @ Books of Love

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    1. Thanks! I've already read The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, but I can't wait to get to Magonia :) Thanks for stopping by Grace!

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  2. Magonia must be great. I have't read it yet myself but I have read a lot of positive reviews. Happy reading :)

    Sofia @ SofiaLovesReading

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    1. Thanks! I'm really looking forward to reading it :)

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  3. A-ha, you have a lovely feather theme this week. Both look like good ones. Enjoy.

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    1. Thanks, magical realism is just right up my alley!

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  4. Great haul! Magonia is one that I've wanted to check out for the longest time. It sounds so unique! I hope you have an awesome week. :)
    Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian

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  5. I used to read a ton of the YA paranormal and dystopian books but recently I have found them to be a bit 'samey' so I'm veering away from most of them. I'm not familiar with these books so I hope you love them! Happy reading!

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    1. Haha, I'm the same! That's why I've been wanting to read different YA genres for a while now :)

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