I had heard, God knows where, that The Magicians was a good modern fantasy story. If I ever find out who it was that told me this, they will be spending a long time apologising to me. Thinking about it now, some time after I finished reading it, it actually ranks close to A Week In December on my al...
A story of some teenagers, finished with school and heading in to college who find themselves in a semi-hidden college that teaches the brightest and the best how to use magic. While bright they're still teenages and still college students and still capable of terrible stupidity and thoughtless act...
The only things I knew about The Magicians before I read it was...1) It was good.2) It was basically Harry Potter, but the characters went to a university (Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy) rather than a secondary institution (Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry).Pleasantly, I discover...
Quentin Coldwater is used to being smarter than everyone he knows. Like many other clever, precocious teenagers, he's convinced that there must be something more out there than the dreary existence he faces every day. On his way to a college interview, he discovers that there is, in fact. He ends up...
Two stars only because the writing in itself was decent, if not mind-blowing.What. A. Fucking. Mess.Really, that was pretty awful. Quentin is horrendous. Alice is a non-character and has a complete personality reversal about midway through the book. Eliot is... what the fuck is Eliot supposed to b...
Two stars only because the writing in itself was decent, if not mind-blowing.What. A. Fucking. Mess.Really, that was pretty awful. Quentin is horrendous. Alice is a non-character and has a complete personality reversal about midway through the book. Eliot is... what the fuck is Eliot supposed to b...
Quentin Coldwater is an unhappy but highly intelligent teenager about to sit an interview for a college place when he finds his interviewer dead. When he leaves the office, he has been handed an envelope with his name on it which leads him to a place he never knew existed, where the seasons are out ...
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