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And what becomes of Julie, who failed the Brakebills entrance exam in the first book and underwent her own education and trials outside of the system, must be experienced to be fully appreciated. Even Eliot, the louche borderline alcoholic, shifts as a result of his role as High King: the crown itself seems to reshape him into a steward of the land. His relationship with Plum, herself a Brakebills' cast-off, is the first mature male-female relationship of Quentin's life, guided by mutual support, rather than the self-doubt-driven lust of his previous – even platonic –relationships.īut it's not just Quentin. Quentin demonstrates the greatest growth, his previously relentless self-interest shifting into something altogether more generous, more selfless. The Magician's Land is rooted firmly in the development of the trilogy's characters this is a magical bildungsroman of the highest order. As a result, it's virtually impossible, and somewhat unfair, to talk about The Magician's Land in isolation. And that's as it should be: while each of the three novels does stand, somewhat precariously, on its own, they are designed to be read as a group. As High King Eliot and Queen Janet discover, the country is dying around them, and there may be nothing they can do to save it.Īll of the above, of course, will make little sense to anyone who hasn't read The Magicians or The Magician King, the previous two novels in the trilogy. The country is invaded by forces from the north, but this incursion is only a symptom of deeper problems. Meanwhile, things in Fillory are falling apart. Even that job is short-lived, however, and Quentin falls in with a magical heist, a group of "hedge witches" (non-academic, self-taught practitioners of magic) brought together, Oceans Eleven-style, to steal an unopenable valise. While his surviving friends remain behind as kings and queens of Fillory, Quentin returns to his alma mater Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, as an instructor in, of all things, Minor Mendings.
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Coldwater is, naturally, devastated: Fillory is the land for which he had yearned since his childhood – when he discovered it in a series of English children's books – and which he discovered to be real in the trilogy's first instalment, The Magicians. The novel begins with Quentin Coldwater, the main protagonist of the trilogy, exiled from Fillory. It's an appropriate choice, capturing as it does the sense of loss and of hope which characterizes Grossman's novel, the third in The Magicians trilogy, an envoi and a valediction to both Fillory, the world he has created, and to the cast of characters he has followed from the earliest days of their adulthood. Lewis's The Last Battle, the final book in The Chronicles of Narnia, which details the destruction and rebirth of the fantasy world Lewis spent seven novels exploring and revealing. The Magician's Land, the new novel from New York writer and Time magazine book critic Lev Grossman, begins with an epigraph ("Further Up and Further In!") drawn from C.S. Bree-hee-hee! Come further up, come further in!" – C.S. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. But deep within us all lies the power to enchant the world.Ĭindy Bagwell wrote this review for the Dallas Morning News.I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here.
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It takes hard work, it hurts, and you have to be ready to fail. Life, like magic, gives back only as much as you put into it. Having dodged the middle-of-the-trilogy curse in "The Magician King" of simply mumble-humming between the exciting first verse and the rousing last stanza, Grossman brings the story home in "The Magician's Land" on a very satisfying chord. And unicorns - you don't wanna mess with them. You can smell the vile breath of the High King's hoggish opponent in slow-motion single combat. There's so much excitement as to make the temptation to race ahead a serious danger. (Sequel? Pleeease?)Īnd not only do we have a lot of ground to cover, but there are also duels to fight, magical property to steal and world-ending destruction to witness.īattle scenes are laid out with vivid, near-storyboard detail. And we meet a new character, Plum, whose magical roots run deeper than she knows. We learn what happened to all the other Chatwins. Even the dead in Fillory's Purgatory Gymnasium get a cameo. We re-meet practically everybody who had any character development in the first two books. Newcomers to this fantasy series for grown-ups will definitely want to start with the first book, and even fans might want to go back for a refresher.