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 | : | Anniversary 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.Describe Books Toward The Magician King (The Magicians #2)
| 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) |
Rating Appertaining To Books The Magician King (The Magicians #2)
Ratings: 3.92 From 83085 Users | 6416 ReviewsEvaluate Appertaining To Books The Magician King (The Magicians #2)
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_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
Book two is fulled with even more sexism then the first one, which is almost hard to imagine, but Lev Grossman manages to pull it off by writing like some kind of horny per-pubescent teenager looking for any flimsy excuse whatsoever to get his female characters topless so he can describe their breasts in feverish, obsessive, totally unnecessary and excruciating detail.
4 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum http://bibliosanctum.com/2014/07/31/b...Back in my review of The Magicians, I wrote that you could have a miserably unlikeable character for the sake of writing a miserably unlikeable character and that I wouldnt mind, just as long as you could give me a reason to care about him or her. While thats still true, it does really help if your protagonist isnt a whiny little ingrate and actually shows growth over the course of the novel. I really think thats why The
1.5/5 but closer to 2 Like the first it succeeded in entertainment but not much else. There wasn't so much as plot holes as insufficient fillers that seemed a little rushed. It wasn't enough to take me out of the story but I did ask myself a few times while reading this what the point was with a few scenes and why certain things were explained in such detail while more important elements were just glossed over.
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
Ive been sitting on this review for weeks, waiting for my thoughts to settle. This is a frustrating, slippery, controlled, funny, beautiful book, and it left me with very complicated feelings.Its a double-stranded narrative: one is Quentin, bored with being King of Fillory and off on a grand sea voyage that takes him through multiple worlds and to the making and unmaking of universes. The other is Julia. Oh, Julia. Who didnt make it into special people magic school like Quentin, and who had to
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