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. Genre: Epic, Books, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Literary, Contemporary File Size: 1.99 MB. 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. The main character, Quentin Coldwater, gets accepted into Brakebills where he and his friends learn to cast spells and eventually fight the Big Bad known as The Beast. A PG-13-rated (and frankly, sometimes R) version of Hogwarts, if you will. And we meet a new character, Plum, whose magical roots run deeper than she knows. Based on Lev Grossman’s book of the same name, SYFY’s The Magicians centers around a group of students at Brakebills University, a school for magic. Its the story of a boy becoming a man, an apprentice becoming a master, and a broken land finally becoming whole. Lewis Narnia, Grossman really creates an interesting set of characters who are very flawed, yet show more nuance. I love the sarcasm, the OMGs and the poignancy, the crossover between the real world and the fantasy, the subtle and unacknowledged pop culture references, the self-aware jadedness that only comes from being a.
We learn what happened to all the other Chatwins. The Magicians Land is an intricate thriller, a fantastical epic and an epic of love and redemption that brings the Magicians trilogy to a magnificent climax, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy. Beyond the obvious homage to Rowling and C.S. The Magicians Land: 3 (Magicians Trilogy) von Grossman, Lev beim - ISBN 10: 0147516145 - ISBN 13: 9780147516145 - Penguin Usa - 2015 - Softcover. The Magician's Land (2014) review 1: It dawned on me while tearing through this book how much I really enjoy Lev Grossman's writing. Our interview with Lev Grossman Lev Grossmans The Magicians series series The Magicians Land reader reviews Write a reader review Books you may also enjoy. 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.