Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined. The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power and, for a while, it's a world that seems to answer all Quentin's desires. But the idyll cannot last - and when it's finally shattered, Quentin is drawn into something darker and far more dangerous than anything he could ever have expected...
I really enjoyed this one! It sort of reminded me of Harry Potter meets Narnia for the adult crowd. I will say that the first 3/4 th of the novel was outstanding and it would have probably have earned a 5 star rating had the whole book just been about his time at the magic college. The last fourth of the book dragged a bit for me, but still overall a really good read!
