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| Original Title: | The Magician King |
| ISBN: | 043402080X (ISBN13: 9780434020805) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Magicians #2 |
| Characters: | Quentin Coldwater, Poppy, Eliot Waugh, Janet Pluchinsky, Josh Hoberman, Julia Wicker, Penny (William), Henry Fogg |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2011) |
Lev Grossman
Paperback | Pages: 400 pages Rating: 3.92 | 83085 Users | 6416 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Magician King (The Magicians #2) |
| Author | : | Lev Grossman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | August 9th 2011 by William Heinemann (first published 2011) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Magic. Urban Fantasy |
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Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to The New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon of 2009--The Magicians. The Magicians was praised as a triumph by readers and critics of both mainstream and fantasy literature. Now Grossman takes us back to Fillory, where the Brakebills graduates have fled the sorrows of the mundane world, only to face terrifying new challenges. Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are starting to pall. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a magical sailing ship and set out on an errand to the wild outer reaches of their kingdom. Their pleasure cruise becomes an adventure when the two are unceremoniously dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parent's house in Chesterton, Massachusetts. And only the black, twisted magic that Julia learned on the streets can save them. The Magician King is a grand voyage into the dark, glittering heart of magic, an epic quest for the Harry Potter generation. It also introduces a powerful new voice, that of Julia, whose angry genius is thrilling. Once again Grossman proves that he is the cutting edge of literary fantasy.Rating Containing Books The Magician King (The Magicians #2)
Ratings: 3.92 From 83085 Users | 6416 ReviewsCritique Containing Books The Magician King (The Magicians #2)
"...he thought he'd learned a lesson about the world, and now he was realizing that the lesson he learned might've been the wrong one."I would say that I enjoyed this installment only slightly less than The Magicians. I've seen quite a few reviewers say the last two books in this series made up for how little they enjoyed the first, but having read The Magician King I honestly don't understand that statement.The storytelling is somewhat more focused on a "quest" if you will, but for me this book_The Magician King_ is a good book. Still, I found the first half to be a bit of a slow start that was by turns frustrating and enjoyable in almost equal measure, so I kept vacillating between a 3 and 4 for it, so I think it ends up for me at a fairly solid 3.5. The book itself is divided into two more or less equal story halves: one follows Quentin and his friends in Fillory as they go on a diplomatic mission of purely cursory import that turns into a fairly inconsequential 'quest'this in turn
Most of the book had transformed into boilerplate fantasy adventure. If I had a nickel for every time that Quentin used his byline, "Let's go on a quest," I could probably afford a bean burrito at Taco Hell. He steamrolled everything and everyone in his path to get exactly what he wanted or what he believed to be a righteous cause, and except for a few casualties along the way, we, as readers, get to watch him be the the greatest casualty of his own adventure.The last development somewhat
Though I wasn't totally in love with the first book in this series, The Magicians, I did like this book a bit better. In the Magician Kings we meet up with Quentin and friends again, this time as kings and queens of Fillory. Fillory is a magical place outside of Earth as we know it. I found this king and queen stuff corny, and I still couldn't stand the whiny, self absorbed Quentin......twerp. I'm sure the author ment for him to be that annoying but I could bearly stand him. For the first half
This series can be really frustrating because it takes everything you expect and think you know and goes "....nah." I enjoyed this book so much more than the first one. The characters, while still realistic and frustrating, grew on me a lot and I found myself really caring for them. The introduction of a "new" character was also a great addition as well, and I enjoyed learning about their backstory. I noticed a lot of connections being made between situations and characters in this book already,
I am so annoyed by this book, and not for the reasons I thought I'd be. The two things that irritated me about the first book weren't as bad here--specifically, Quentin was less whiny (I couldn't stand him in the first book; he was more bearable here), and the sexism that ran through the first book was really toned down. (I could never tell if the sexism was supposed to be Quentin's voice, or if it was latent from the author. I suspect the latter.) At first, I thought Julia was going to be a
If Quentin Coldwater stumbled on a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, hed constantly complain about how heavy it was and how the coins didnt fit in any vending machines and why couldn't they have just put the money into a nice cashier's check that he could have fit neatly in his wallet and then deposited in the bank? In the first book, Quentin was a brilliant but disillusioned teenager who found life a boring slog and desperately wished that things were more like his favorite fantasy series
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