Waiting on Wednesday #7 – “Magonia”

Von Franziska @bloodystrangerx

"Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill ( breakingthespine) that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating."

Title: Magonia
Author: Maria Dahvana Headley
Expected Publication: April 28th 2015
Pages: 320

First thought

Clicked on "Want To Read"!
Wait a minute .... What is the book even about?

... I hope it's worth the Cover.

Reading the summary and feeling like

"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?"

Neil Gaiman's Stardust meets John Green's The Fault in Our Stars in this fantasy about a girl caught between two worlds...two races...and two destinies.

I haven't read "Stardust" but I've read "The Fault In Our Stars" and damn, that book made me cry like a baby. If this book is even near to John Green's masterpiece or the movie "Stardust" (which I love very much, so you better be good "Magonia"!) - I'll be so happy to discover a new story about destiny, love and some otherwordly stuff.
It reminds me of Trial By Fire. The main character suffers from a disease too and struggles to have a normal life - but then, she magically gets sucked in another world, where her "weakness" is actually Power.
We'll see. But the Cover is still magnificent...

What is your opinion? Overrated? Underrated? What did you pick for your WoW?