The Magicians by Lev Grossman

The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)

by Lev Grossman

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...

Reviewed by malberto on

3 of 5 stars

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People have pinned this series as an adult Harry Potter but I thought it was more like a dark, adult version of Narnia... The world building was done very randomly and and it seems that the author really wants the characters to be "real people with real people's problems" (magic apart of course) and that's OK but it feels forced.

Over all I kind of liked the book and will read the second one, but it wasn't wat I expected at all....

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