Lev Grossman meets the challenge head on. These days any novel about young sorcerers at wizard school inevitably invites comparison to Harry Potter. It's strange, fanciful, extravagant, eccentric, and truly remarkable - a great story, masterfully told Scott Smith, author of The Ruins The Magicians is fantastic, in all senses of the word. Very dark and very scary, with no simple answers provided - fantasy for grown-ups, in other words, and very satisfying indeed KirkusĪnyone who grew up reading about magical wardrobes and unicorns and talking trees before graduating to Less Than Zero and The Secret History and Bright Lights, Big City will immediately feel right at home with this smart, beautifully written book by Lev Grossman. The novel's climax includes some spectacular magical battles to complement the complex emotional entanglements Grossman has deftly sketched in earlier chapters. Lewis) in order to upend them, and tell a darkly cunning story about the power of imagination itself The New Yorker This gripping novel draws on the conventions of contemporary and classic fantasy novels (most obviously, those of J. From the life of Quentin, his slacker Park Slope Harry Potter, Grossman delivers superb coming of age fantasy Junot Diaz, author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao I can't imagine any lover of well-written classic fantasy. This is a sophisticated, subtle novel that is also magical fun. It's strange, fanciful, extravagant, eccentric, and truly remarkable - a great story, masterfully told.' - SCOTT SMITH, author of THE RUINS Read more ' The Magicians is fantastic, in all senses of the word. Forget Hogwarts: this is where the magic really is.' - SFX ' The Magicians is angst-ridden, bleak, occasionally joyous and gloriously readable. 'The best fantasy trilogy of the decade' - CHARLES STROSS Lev Grossman has written a terrific, at times almost painfully perceptive novel of the fantastic' - KELLY LINK ' The Magicians ought to be required reading. Literary perfection.' - ERIN MORGENSTERN, author of THE NIGHT CIRCUS 'Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along. 'A sophisticated, subtle novel that is also magical fun' - THE TIMES superb' - JUNOT DIAZ, author of DROWN and THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO THE FIRST BOOK IN LEV GROSSMAN'S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MAGICIAN TRILOGY
There are others powers than sorcery, powers that are as seductive as they are dangerous - and when the illusion of safety shatters, Quentin is drawn into a world far darker than he ever imagined.Īfter all, power corrupts. Quentin plunges deep into a secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power and for a while, it seems to answer all Quentin's desires. Instead of Princeton, he finds himself invited to study at Brakebills - a secret college of modern-day sorcerers. Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton University, he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's name leads him down a very different path. In a secret world of forbidden knowledge, power comes at a terrible price. THE BESTSELLING BOOK BEHIND THE HIT SYFY SHOW
dark and dangerous and full of twists' - GEORGE R. ' The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. The unputdownable new novel by the bestselling author of CODEX