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Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon, The Magicians, now an original series on Syfy, from the author of the #1 bestselling The Magician’s Land.
Quentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that Fillory—a fictional utopia—was actually real. But even as a Fillorian king, Quentin finds little peace. His old restlessness returns, and he longs for the thrills a heroic quest can bring.
Accompanied by his oldest friend, Julia, Quentin sets off—only to somehow wind up back in the real world and not in Fillory, as they’d hoped. As the pair struggle to find their way back to their lost kingdom, Quentin is forced to rely on Julia’s illicitly learned sorcery as they face a sinister threat in a world very far from the beloved fantasy novels of their youth.
- Sales Rank: #6549 in Books
- Brand: Plume Books
- Published on: 2012-05-29
- Released on: 2012-05-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.40" h x .92" w x 5.50" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 432 pages
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2011: This second volume in Lev Grossman’s celebrated series picks up just after the events of its 2009 prequel The Magicians. Quentin, Eliot, Janet, and Julia are now the High Kings and Queens of Fillory, a fantastic realm not unlike Narnia, and they pass their days “deliquescing atom by atom amid a riot of luxury.” To ease his royal boredom, Quentin embarks on a quest with Julia. Despite his romantic visions of heroic feats and easy accolades, the quest goes horribly awry, and they find themselves back in the depressingly real world of Chesterton, Massachusetts. With the help of seedy underground magicians, a dragon, and a young boy named Thomas, they undertake a desperate journey back to Fillory. Grossman’s writing here is sharp and self-aware, and the characters feel like people you actually know, but cooler: they are delightfully profane and dripping with irony, they are arrogant and shallow, they are finding their way in a magically perfect world that somehow still lets them down, and they are learning to fight for the things they love. The Magician King is a triumph of (and an homage to) modern fantasy writing, and a must-read for grown-up fans of Narnia and Harry Potter. --Juliet Disparte
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“[A] serious, heartfelt novel [that] turns the machinery of fantasy inside out.”
—The New York Times (Editor’s Choice)
“A spellbinding stereograph, a literary adventure novel that is also about privilege, power, and the limits of being human. The Magician King is a triumphant sequel.”
—NPR.org
“[The Magician King] is The Catcher in the Rye for devotees of alternative universes. It’s dazzling and devil-may-care. . . . Grossman has created a rare, strange, and scintillating novel.”
—Chicago Tribune
“The Magician King is a rare achievement, a book that simultaneously criticizes and celebrates our deep desire for fantasy.”
—The Boston Globe
“Grossman has devised an enchanted milieu brimming with possibility, and his sly authorial voice gives it a literary life that positions The Magician King well above the standard fantasy fare.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Grossman expands his magical world into a boundless enchanted universe, and his lively characters navigate it with aplomb.”
—The New Yorker
“Grossman is brilliant at creating brainy, distinct, flawed, complex characters, and nearly as good at running them through narrative gauntlets that inventively tweak the stories that generations have grown up on.”
—The Portland Oregonian
“The Magician King, the immensely entertaining new novel by Lev Grossman, manages to be both deep and deeply enjoyable.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“Readers who have already enjoyed The Magicians should lose no time in picking up The Magician King. For those who haven’t, read both books: Grossman’s work is solid, smart, and engaging adult fantasy.”
—The Miami Herald
“Now that Harry Potter is through in books and films, grown-up fans of the boy wizard might want to give this nimble fantasy series a try.”
—New York Post
“Lev Grossman’s The Magician King is a fresh take on the fantasy-quest novel—dark, austere, featuring characters with considerable psychological complexity, a collection of idiosyncratic talking animals (a sloth who knows the path to the underworld, a dragon in the Grand Canal), and splendid set pieces in Venice, Provence, Cornwall, and Brooklyn.”
—The Daily Beast
“In this page-turning follow-up to his bestselling 2009 novel The Magicians, Grossman takes another dark, sarcastically sinister stab at fantasy, set in the Narnia-esque realm of Fillory.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“The Magician King is clearly the middle book in a trilogy, but it’s that rare creature that bridges the gap between tales and still stands on its own. And just as the first book showed that growing up is hard no matter how much power you have, it shows that becoming an adult involves far more than just reaching the right age.”
—The A.V. Club
“Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom—not to be missed.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Fans of The Magicians will find this sequel a feast and will be delighted that a jaw-dropping denouement surely promises a third volume to come.”
—Booklist
About the Author
LEV GROSSMAN is the book critic for Time magazine and author of five novels, including the international bestseller Codex and the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Even better than the first one
By Topkat2
Even better than the first one, which I loved. I am consistently delighted by the ways in which Grossman uses the conventions and touchstones of fantasy fiction -- and I don't just mean the Harry Potter series and the Narnia books, but, for example, "The Tempest," which of course features one of literature's great magician kings -- to enrich and twist his story, to add nuance.
I have a couple of friends who say they don't like the series because the narrator is "a whiner." I don't really understand this complaint: I have not tended to feel the need to love my protagonists. And I'd argue that one of the greatest fantasy series of all time is E. Nesbit's "The Five Children and It" series, narrated by a spectacularly pompous, self-satisfied young man named Oswald. As with Quentin -- the narrator of the "Magicians" series -- Oswald's heart is in the right place, but he is delightfully irritating. And the books would not be nearly so satisfying if the narrator were NOT so irritating, if he were less self-absorbed, more aware of his own fallibility, etc. Because in his irritatingness, he -- both he's -- is LIKE US. He's human. And that both makes his foibles funnier and gives his tragedies some real emotional weight.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
after initial doubts, I'm so glad I continued this series!
By IHS
After finishing the first book in this series, I must admit, I did not like it. It just did not resonate with me. it was exciting sometimes, sure, and the last half I red in a day, but still, I was very unsure if I wanted to start reading the second. I did, and I'm so glad! I don't know what changed, if it was the books becoming better, or I becoming more used to them, anyhow, I loved it. It is both fun and charming, but still manage to mix this up with great suspense and some pretty grizzly scenes. The book flows nicely, and it has the rare quality to really make me feel what the characters are feeling. Not always a pleasant feeling! Now that I finished all three I really do feel like there is a hole, I have no idea what to do with myself, and are desperately looking for a new series that can fill the void after the magicians.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
and I found lots to enjoy even while some things frustrated me to no end
By Pickwick
"The Magicians" had writing and descriptions that sparkled on the page, and I found lots to enjoy even while some things frustrated me to no end. Rather than an ordinary fantasy, it was an ironic take on how the easy availability of fantasy can destroy our ability to live in the real world, and it did destroy some characters who were frustratingly consistent in failing to overcome their weaknesses. For all that frustration, Grossman is such a good writer ("a far better writer than an author," to paraphrase someone else's review) that I was eager to read "The Magician King."
It was dreadful. The writing is less clever, the characters less interesting, more predictable, more frustrating. Grossman, as in "The Magicians," borrows parts of Narnia and other worlds, including ours, to twist them in new ways, sometimes creating something new and interesting; but more often, the result ends up as a predictable poke at pop culture. He does not succeed nearly as well as in the first book. If he intended to write a book for this moment only, he may have achieved his end, but "The Magician King" has way too many "in-jokes" to last. Frankly, that kind of humor quickly bores me, anyway.
As others have mentioned, there's a shocking, disgusting, gratuitous scene that comes out of nowhere and serves no purpose that couldn't have been served by a less vile plot point.
I pre-ordered the second book; I'll wait for the third to appear in libraries--and read it once I've gotten through everything else on my list.
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