What is Aerie about?
The stunning sequel to Maria Dahvana Headley’s bestselling, critically acclaimed Magonia tells the story of one girl who must make an impossible choice between two families, two homes—and two versions of herself.
Aza Ray is back on earth. Her boyfriend, Jason, is overjoyed. Her family is healed. She’s living a normal life, or as normal as it can be if you’ve spent the past year dying, waking up on a sky ship, and discovering that your song can change the world.
As in, not normal. Part of Aza still yearns for the clouds, no matter how much she loves the people on the ground.
When Jason’s paranoia over Aza’s safety causes him to make a terrible mistake, Aza finds herself a fugitive in Magonia, tasked with opposing her radical, bloodthirsty, recently escaped mother, Zal Quel, and her singing partner, Dai. She must travel to the edge of the world in search of a legendary weapon, the Flock, in a journey through fire and identity that will transform her forever.
Told in Maria Headley’s trademark John Green–meets–Neil Gaiman style, Aerie is sure to satisfy the many readers who can’t wait to return to the spellbinding world of Magonia.
One foot on the ground, one in the clouds. Aza’s choice will either save the world—or shatter it.
- A High-Stakes Teen Romance: She came back to Earth for Jason, the boy she loves. But when his fear for her safety leads to a terrible mistake, their love is tested across worlds.
- A Hidden Identity: On the ground, she tries to be a normal girl. But in the sky kingdom of Magonia, Aza Ray is a powerful being whose very existence is a threat to her tyrannical mother.
- The Reluctant Chosen One: Aza never asked to be the key to a war between worlds. Now, she must embrace her power and hunt for a legendary weapon before her mother uses her to destroy everything.
- A World Between Worlds: Return to Magonia, where ships sail the clouds, squallwhales sing storms into being, and a girl’s song has the power to save—or shatter—the world.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Aerie?
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