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The entire #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy, including The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician's Land, now available in one ebook bundle

The Magicians
Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams may have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined . . .

The Magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. No one who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination.

The Magician King
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.

The Magician's Land
Quentin Coldwater has lost everything. He has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical world of his childhood dreams that he once ruled. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he can’t hide from his past, and it’s not long before it comes looking for him. Meanwhile, the magical barriers that keep Fillory safe are failing, and barbarians from the north have invaded. Eliot and Janet, the rulers of Fillory, embark on a final quest to save their beloved world, only to discover a situation far more complex—and far more dire—than anyone had envisioned.

Along with Plum, a brilliant young magician with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. His new life takes him back to old haunts, like Antarctica and the Neitherlands, and old friends he thought were lost forever. The Magician’s Land is an intricate and fantastical thriller, and an epic of love and redemption that brings the Magicians trilogy to a magnificent conclusion, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy.

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Praise for The Magician's Land
“Richly imagined and continually surprising. . . . The strongest book in Grossman’s series. 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. . . . The Magician’s Land, more than any other book in the trilogy, wrestles with the question of humanity. . . . This is a gifted writer, and his gifts are at their apex in The Magician’s Land.”
—Edan Lepucki, The New York Times Book Review

“The strength of the trilogy lies . . . in the characters, whose inner lives and frailties Grossman renders with care and empathy. . . . Quentin[’s] . . . magical journey is deeply human.”
—The New Yorker

“[A] wonderful trilogy. . . . If the Narnia books were like catnip for a certain kind of kid, these books are like crack for a certain kind of adult. . . . Brakebills graduates can have a hard time adjusting to life outside, though some distract themselves by lazily meddling in world affairs (e.g., the election of 2000). Readers of Mr. Grossman’s mesmerizing trilogy might experience the same kind of withdrawal upon finishing The Magician’s Land. Short of wishing that a fourth book could suddenly appear by magic, there’s not much we can do about it.”
—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times

“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. . . . 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.”
—Gwenda Bond, The Los Angeles Times

“A wholly satisfying and stirring conclusion to this weird and wonderful tale. . . . Relentlessly subversive and inventive. . . . Grossman can . . . write like a magician. . . . [He] reminds us that good writing can beguile the senses, imagination and intellect. 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.”
—Keith Donohue, The Washington Post

“A huge part of the pleasure of this trilogy in general and this volume in particular is that, even as we consume the story just to find out what happens to Quentin, we know that we are collaborating in our own versions of its creation, its animation. The reader gets to be a magician, too.”
—Nancy Klingener, The Miami Herald

“[A] stirring finale to Grossman’s acclaimed trilogy.”
—People

“The Magician’s Land . . . 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. . . . 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, which comes to a head in the final chapters with a world-shattering Götterdämmerung scene that stands with great war at the climax of The Return of the King. 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. 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.
—Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

“The world of Grossman's ‘Magicians’ series is arrestingly original, joyful and messy. It's so vividly rendered that it's almost disappointing to remember that it doesn't, after all, exist. The overall effect is — well, there's really only one word for it: It's magical.”
—Chicago Tribune

“[A] satisfying ending to the series. . . . Saying goodbye to Quentin is bittersweet, but saying goodbye to a Quentin who achieves some peace at last fills the farewell with a reassuring optimism for his future.”
—The Boston Globe

“An enchanting conclusion . . . to a series that references C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling while remaining refreshingly original. . . . The Magician’s Land is that rare novel that looks at what happens after the child prodigy grows up and has to get a job. . . . [It] features the return of a character sorely missed by both Quentin and readers alike, as well as Grossman’s trademark witty dialogue.”
—The Christian Science Monitor

“The last (and IOHO, best) book in the hit Magicians trilogy. Savor every word.”
—Cosmopolitan

“An explosive conclusion to Quentin Coldwater’s adventures.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“A satisfying finale to the series, while adding depth and shading to the world. . . . Grossman tells exciting fantasy adventures, but at the same time deconstructs the fantasy, as his characters discover that even magical wish-fulfillment is no guarantee of happiness, and even a job casting spells in a magical land is still work.”
—A.V. Club (A-)

“When read straight through, the Magicians trilogy reveals its lovely shape. 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. There's still a series of mysteries and untold tales left unknown deep inside the books.”
—Choire Sicha, The Slate Book Review

“All lovers of Lev Grossman’s first two books of The Magicians trilogy: This is the end, beautiful friend. . . . One of the lovely things about this series is watching Quentin evolve from depressed teen to clear-eyed man. If Grossman raises his kids with the same sympathy with which he parents his literary teen, he’ll be a smashing success. . . . Battle scenes are laid out with vivid, near-storyboard detail. There’s so much excitement as to make the temptation to race ahead a serious danger. . . . Grossman brings the story home on a very satisfying chord. The chorus: We are all magicians. Life, like magic, gives back only as much as you put into it. It takes hard work, it hurts, and you have to be ready to fail. But deep within us all lies the power to enchant the world.”
—Cindy Bagwell, Dallas Morning News

“So you’ve torn through all the volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones), and you’re a little over the whole dystopian young-adult thing. What’s an adventure-minded reader to do for a fat beach book this August? Look no further than Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy.”
—Sara Stewart, The New York Post

“The very satisfying final book in [Grossman’s] trilogy. . . . This third book, at turns a heist story, a meditation on the act of creation, and an apocalyptic disaster tale, continues the adventures of main character Quentin Coldwater. It mixes genre deconstruction with psychological realism, full of self-aware figures who are cognizant of all the tropes of fantasy fiction, while at the same time working to fulfill those tropes or push against them. There are great swaths of high imagination in The Magician's Land, evocative passages that contain entire worlds. Writing, like magic, is a craft, and Grossman performs it oh so well.”
—Gilbert Cruz, NY1

“In the smash trilogy’s thrilling end, Quentin is cast out of Fillory, the enchanted realm he once ruled. But he’ll risk his life (and make dangerous allies) to save the threatened world.”
—US Weekly

“[A] deeply satisfying finale . . . [Grossman’s] characters’ magical battles have a bravura all their own. . . . The essence of being a magician, as Quentin learns to define it, could easily serve as a thumbnail description of Grossman’s art: ‘the power to enchant the world.’”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“An absolutely brilliant fantasy filled with memorable characters—old and new—and prodigious feats of imagination. . . . Endlessly fascinating . . . Fantasy fans will rejoice at its publication.”
—Booklist (starred review)

“[The Magicians] series taken as a whole brings new life and energy to the fantasy genre. The final volume will please fans looking for action, emotion, and, ultimately, closure.”
—Library Journal

“An elegantly written third act to Quentin’s bildungsroman. . . . Fans of the trilogy will be pleased.”
—Publishers Weekly

“If you haven’t read the first two books in Grossman’s Magicians trilogy, buy them immediately and set aside a weekend to read them straight through before you turn to The Magician’s Land. The series, which follows a group of—you guessed it—magicians through the emotional foibles of young adulthood has been called ‘Harry Potter for adults.’ But it’s way more complex than that. Grossman hones in on the particularly brutal business of being young, and then adds layer upon layer of literary allusion, creating works that are both homages to fantasy’s past and glimpses at its future.”
—The New Republic

“Sink your mobile devices into the nearest wishing well and duct-tape your front door against gnomes, pollsters, and other distractions. The Magician’s Land is beckoning, and demands your full attention. Lev Grossman proves again that the costs and consolations of creation—both of Fillory and of this conclusion to his trilogy—are mighty forces. Quentin Coldwater, Grossman's Orpheus and his Abraham, his Yahweh and his Puck, enchants as few other magicians can, or dare.”
—Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Egg & Spoon

“Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along. The Magician's Land is sumptuous and surprising yet deliciously familiar, a glass of rich red wine left out for a hungry ghost. Literary perfection for those of us who grew up testing the structural integrity of the backs of wardrobes.”
—Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus

“The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.”
—Charles Stross

“Poignant and messy, fearsome and beautiful—like a good magic spell, the final book in this trilogy is more than the sum of its parts. Also, damn. Just some of the best magic I have read, ever.”
—Maggie Stiefvater

Praise for The Magician King
“[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

“The Magician King, the immensely entertaining new novel by Lev Grossman, manages to be both deep and deeply enjoyable.”
—Chicago Sun-Times

“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

Praise for The Magicians
“Fresh and compelling…The Magicians is a great fairy tale, written for grown-ups but appealing to our most basic desires for stories to bring about some re-enchantment with the world, where monsters lurk but where a young man with a little magic may prevail.”
—Washington Post

“The Magicians is original…slyly funny.”
—USA Today

“Lev Grossman’s playful fantasy novel The Magicians pays homage to a variety of sources…with such verve and ease that you quickly forget the references and lose yourself in the story.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine

“The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. Solidly rooted in the traditions of both fantasy and mainstream literary fiction, the novel tips its hat to Oz and Narnia as well to Harry, but don’t mistake this for a children's book. Grossman’s sensibilities are thoroughly adult, his narrative dark and dangerous and full of twists. Hogwarts was never like this.”
—George R. R. Martin, bestselling author of A Game of Thrones

“Stirring, complex, adventurous…from the life of Quentin Coldwater, his slacker Park Slope Harry Potter, Lev Grossman delivers superb coming of age fantasy.”
—Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“I felt like I was poppin’ peyote buttons with J. K. Rowling when I was reading Lev Grossman’s new novel The Magicians.…I couldn’t put it down.”
—Mickey Rapkin, GQ

“The novel manages a literary magic trick: it’s both an enchantingly written fantasy and a moving deconstruction of enchantingly realized fantasies.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Intriguing, coming-of-age fantasy.”
—Boston Globe (Pick of the Week)

“The Magicians by Lev Grossman is a very entertaining book; one of those summer page-turners that you wish went on for another six volumes. Grossman takes a good number of the best childhood fantasy books from the last seventy-five years and distills their ability to fascinate into the fan-boy mind of his protagonist, Quentin Coldwater.… There is no doubt that this book is inventive storytelling and Grossman is at the height of his powers.”
—Chicago Sun-Times

“Entertaining.”
—People

“Lev Grossman’s novel The Magicians may just be the most subversive, gripping, and enchanting fantasy novel I’ve read this century…. Grossman is a hell of a pacer, and the book rips along, whole seasons tossed out in a single sentence, all the boring mortar ground off the bricks, so that the book comes across as a sheer, seamless face that you can’t stop yourself from tumbling down once you launch yourself off the first page. This isn’t just an exercise in exploring what we love about fantasy and the lies we tell ourselves about it—it’s a shit-kicking, gripping, tightly plotted novel that makes you want to take the afternoon off work to finish it.”
—Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

“An irresistible storytelling momentum makes The Magicians a great summer book, both thoughtful and enchanting.”
—Salon.com

“Sly and lyrical, [The Magicians] captures the magic of childhood and the sobering years beyond.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“This gripping novel draws on the conventions of contemporary and classic fantasy novels in order to upend them, and tell a darkly cunning story about the power of imagination itself. [The Magicians is] an unexpectedly moving coming-of-age story.”
—The New Yorker

About the Author

Lev Grossman is the book critic for Time magazine and the author of five novels, including the international bestseller Codex and the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy. A graduate of Harvard and Yale, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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I was born in 1969 and grew up in Lexington, MA. My parents were both English professors, so naturally I read a lot. I read a lot in college too, and read even more in graduate school. Then I moved to New York City and started writing full time.

My first novel, Warp, came out in 1997. My second, Codex, was published in 2004 and became an international bestseller. The Magicians was published in 2009 and was a New York Times bestseller and one of the New Yorker's best books of the year. The sequel, The Magician King, came out in 2011 and was a Times bestseller too. The third and (almost certainly) last Magicians book, The Magician’s Land, was published in 2014 and debuted at #1 on the bestseller list.

The Magicians books have now been published in twenty-five countries and have gotten praise from among others George R.R. Martin, John Green, Audrey Niffenegger, Erin Morgenstern, Joe Hill, William Gibson, Kelly Link, Gregory Maguire, and Junot Diaz. They've also been adapted for TV: The Magicians is currently the highest-rated show on the Syfy network.

I also write a lot of journalism. I was both the lead technology writer and the book critic at Time magazine for fifteen years, from 2002 through 2016 -- the New York Times described me as “among this country’s smartest and reliable critics.” I’ve written more than 20 cover stories for Time, and my essays and criticism have also been published in the Believer, the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Salon, Slate, Wired, Entertainment Weekly, the Week, Buzzfeed, NPR, Lingua Franca and many other places. I’ve won several awards for journalism, including a Deadline award in 2006.

I've also given many talks and lectures at festivals and on campuses, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Oxford. In 2018 I was the Mary Higgins Clark Chair at Fordham College.

I live in Brooklyn with my wife, two daughters and one son, in a creaky old house.

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naomi

Would order through them again.

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2023

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The book set was in great condition and very happy with the product, would buy for this company again.

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2023

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Loved the show and can't wait to read the books!!

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E. Bixby

The books aren't like the show. But in a good way!

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2016

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So I bought these books after falling in love with the TV series on Sci-Fi channel (no, I'm not going to call it "Sy-Fy" because that name is lame). My first thought was that the books are very different from the TV series, much the way the movie adaptions of comic books are very different from the original medium. The shows are loosely based on the books, and there's a clear relationship, but there are wild differences in plots and characters and events. Honestly, though, the differences are just enough that I kind of respect both as separate works rather than pick at one or the other for the slight deviations. Nor are they sooo far off that it ticks me off (I'm looking at you X-men movies). Plus, as a bonus, I haven't felt like I knew the end of the book based on what I've seen in the show like I usually do with other book/movie/show duos.

Now, I've only read the first book and gotten a few chapters into the second (a little farther than we've gotten in the show). But my impressions of the series so far is: Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, and Hunger Games had a really sarcastic love child and lo! it was named The Magicians Trilogy. The Narnia and Harry Potter similarities are obvious, and I can't imagine that they're not intentional nods from the author. The reason I throw the Hunger Games in there is because Quentin and the other characters are a lot like the rather dark and brooding characters in Hunger Games. At least in the first book. Except more real, and less annoying. And on the bright side, I'm seeing just a little ways into the second book that Quentin is growing and lightening up a bit. So I'm optimistic that by somewhere in the third book, he might become a fully-realized person (not to say that he's not a fully-realized character, because he is) rather than the same hopeless victim that Katniss was by book three--seriously, didn't you want to grab her by the shoulders and shake the hell out of her??

Anyhow, I guess I'm trying to say that so far I'm impressed. The characters are hopelessly flawed and real. But they slowly evolve and grow like people do. And despite them being aimless, spoiled, chemical-dependant bastards, I actually like them! The dialogue is interesting and often funny and snide. The writing is insightful and drops neat details that are memorable and compelling. And I can even forgive the sesquipedalian (see I can do it too) word choices that sometimes seem unnecessary and often stymie my Kindle dictionary (seriously, I need a way to upgrade that thing).

So if you liked the show and are wondering if it's worth picking up the books, the answer is yes. Seriously, why haven't you bought these books yet?

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Matthew E. Harbowy

Roughly started, but well worth it

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2017

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The magician's trilogy has an occasionally uncomfortable feel throughout, which I think is due in part to being an adult series of novels with far too close a relationship to the YA novels, both fictional and nominal, it is set against. There's something unnervingly leering about Quentin early in book one, as though it is a teenage boy written unconvincingly by a lecherous older man, that feels innapropriate. It feels, at times, to be trying too hard to be an antidote to the overly sanctimonious prepubescence of CS Lewis, and is littered with the flotsam and jetsam of hundreds of other YA books in the same strain ("You're a Wizard, Harry"). But ultimately, I feel I have to forgive the flaws, even if they're not misdemeanors.

The question being, at what point (once you've chosen to proceed) do you respectfully consider putting a book down? There are important themes here, to be sure: the price of heroism, love and loss, life and death, and where I think this book makes its greatest impact is how deftly it handles the larger impact of growing up. As a child, your scope of impact is smaller- perhaps just your school or group of friends, but adulthood is the point where the power of some begins to escape the bounds of a smaller sandbox. It's a great uncertainty why some people gather greater influence in the adult world- some do it by training, others by chain of command, and others by sheer force of will (or theft, or fraud). In its own way, this is the "magic" within the allegory, and like eveything about adults, it's messy, libidinous, and profane.
And yet, I'm very reluclant to call it a humanistic tour-de-force. Where it suffers greatly is in its treatment of its queer characters. In some ways, it reflects an almost bisexual-separatist ethos, and I say that as high praise: there's really no need to put strictly heterosexual or homosexual labels on people, that behavior by rights is permitted to be more fluid and strict biochemical predestination. Likewise, the roles of women in this world are more close to equitability, but there's a lot in these books that just doesn't feel well written. These are very "white" books, very "male" characters in very many respects, and there's always the spectre of child sexual abuse, rape, and systemic disenfranchisement that need treatment, but it almost feels like Grossman is in some ways not the writer that is full up to the task of doing that writing. Perhaps no writer is, though, and that may be an unfair assessment, but if this book makes you uneasy or unable to finish it due to the less graceful treatment of such subjects, I don't think that the reader should feel obligated to soldier on. This is not "very best" writing, not worth scar tissue. It is simply good writing, and a fair treatment of a profoundly difficult theme.

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Nicola Grupido

Worth the read

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2023

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If you're a fan of the show then I imagine you'll enjoy the books as much as I have. There are some differences to the show, some characters are less likeable or less connected to the story. Some I felt more connection with in the book and there are some events that are entirely changed in the show as compared to here but for the most part the general feel is there, the same care and depth of detail. If you give it a read I hope you like it! I'll probably be looking into other novels by Mr. Grossman.

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Anabel

Perfect

Reviewed in Spain on May 16, 2022

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MV

Interessante

Reviewed in Italy on January 10, 2021

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Ho comprato la trilogia intera in inglese dopo aver visto tutta la serie TV, che mi é piaciuta un sacco.
Nonostante abbia un buon livello di inglese, il libro presenta molte parole di cui non conosco il significato per cui direi che non é la soluzione migliore per principianti (come invece puo' esserlo la saga di Harry Potter).
Sto ancora leggendo il primo libro ma finora mi é piaciuto leggerlo.

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Samuel E. Wagar

Brilliant rethinking of Fantasy Tropes

Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2022

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I was prompted to buy this set after seeing the streamed series. Some grit, some consideration of the ethics of power and some genuine personal growth of characters. The books are so much better, made me think, and reframed many of the tropes of fantasy literature in fresh and thoughtful ways.

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This series is a great piece of modern fantasy

Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2016

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Ignore those that compare this to Harry Potter. It's a superficial comparison based on the fact the first part of only the first book includes a magic school. However, I would agree with comparing it to the Narnia series, only grown up. This series is a great piece of modern fantasy. This series plays with the idea that you favourite childhood fantasy realm (Narnia like) turns out to actually be true but were written down by someone who only knew part of the story. These books are a well developed world but definitely more mature in nature ( just a heads up that rape is a subject matter). I found the plot was well thought out and tied together. This is definitely a trilogy, I don't think you'd get the full effect without all three books. I devoured these books quite quickly but satisfactorily. I could see reading these books multiple times, they're not a one time and done series as many books are.

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Kaitlin

Great product

Reviewed in Canada on March 22, 2021

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Product is intact, arrived in timely manner.

As for the book itself i couldnt get passed the first one I was so disappointed considering the hype and the tv show. The show was amazing and addicting however this book was extremely boring I regret my purchase. The author has no imagination, an inability to write over a time period. Things were thrown around willy nilly and he clearly knows the english language. He uses fancy words to fill the book and randomly throws in thoughts of unmentionables just for shock value.

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The Magicians Trilogy Books 1-3: The Magicians; The Magician King; The Magicians Land Kindle Edition