![]() ![]() dark and dangerous and full of twists' – GEORGE R. A great novel and series, The Magicians Trilogy is very highly recommended indeed.' The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. If you haven't had a chance to read the first novel, The Magicians, then I strongly suggest you pick it up ASAP. Overall, The Magician's Land was an excellent conclusion to one of the best fantasy trilogies of the past few years. Lev Grossman is sympathetic to his characters and to his readers by giving them both one last, yet satisfying adventure The Book Palace The Magician's Land is a wonderful wrap up of the Magicians trilogy. If you have read the first two installments, believe me, you don't want to miss this one Sense of Wonder The Magician's Land glitters with wit, but the warp and weft of the story is shot through with emotional rawness and a sense of peril. Lev Grossman manipulates fantasy genres with skill. The final part of the outstanding Magicians trilogy. There's still a series of mysteries and untold tales left unknown deep inside the books. The world of the books wraps around itself, exposing most everything necessary by its conclusion, but occluding operations that we'll never need to see. When read straight through, the Magicians trilogy reveals its lovely shape. The last (and IOHO, best) book in the hit Magicians trilogy. The overall effect is - well, there's really only one word for it: It's magical. It's so vividly rendered that it's almost disappointing to remember that it doesn't, after all, exist. The world of Grossman's 'Magicians' series is arrestingly original, joyful and messy. It's this welding together of adventure-fiction plotstuff and introspective, moody characterization that makes this book, and the trilogy it concludes, so worthy of your reading time, and your re-reading time. ![]() At the same time, Grossman never loses sight of the idea of magic as unknowable and unsystematized, a thread of Borgesian Big Weird that culminates in a beautiful tribute to Borges himself. Starting very early in Magician's Land, Grossman kicks off a series of escalating magical battles, each more fantastic, taut, and brutal than the last. does all the things you want in a third book: winding up everyone's stories, tying up the loose ends - and giving you a bit more than you bargained for. The door at the back of the book is still there, and we can go back to those magical lands, older and wiser, eager for the re-enchantment. reminds us that good writing can beguile the senses, imagination and intellect. Gwenda Bond, Los Angeles TimesĪ wholly satisfying and stirring conclusion to this weird and wonderful tale. The Magician's Land triumphantly answers the essential questions at the heart of the series, about whether magic belongs to childhood alone, whether reality trumps fantasy, even whether we have the power to shape our own lives in an indifferent universe. Grossman makes it clear in the deepening complexity and widening scope of each volume that he understands the pleasures and perils of stories and believing in them. Short of wishing that a fourth book could suddenly appear by magic, there's not much we can do about it. Grossman's mesmerizing trilogy might experience the same kind of withdrawal upon finishing The Magician's Land. Brakebills graduates can have a hard time adjusting to life outside. If the Narnia books were like catnip for a certain kind of kid, these books are like crack for a certain kind of adult. in the characters, whose inner lives and frailties Grossman renders with care and empathy. This is a gifted writer, and his gifts are at their apex in The Magician's Land. It not only offers a satisfying conclusion to Quentin Coldwater's quests, earthly and otherwise, but also considers complex questions about identity and selfhood as profound as they are entertaining. Richly imagined and continually surprising. ![]()
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