The Magician's Land - book.dadalo.pl

Softcover, 401 stron

Język English

Opublikowane 14 lipca 2015 przez Plume, Penguin Publishing Group.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-751614-5

(1 opinia)

Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. 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.

Along with Plum, a brilliant young undergraduate with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. But all roads lead back to Fillory, and his new life takes him to old haunts, like Antarctica, and to buried secrets and old friends he thought were lost forever. He uncovers the key to a sorcery masterwork, a spell that could create magical utopia, a new Fillory—but casting it will set in motion a chain of events that will bring Earth and Fillory crashing together. To save …

Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. 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.

Along with Plum, a brilliant young undergraduate with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. But all roads lead back to Fillory, and his new life takes him to old haunts, like Antarctica, and to buried secrets and old friends he thought were lost forever. He uncovers the key to a sorcery masterwork, a spell that could create magical utopia, a new Fillory—but casting it will set in motion a chain of events that will bring Earth and Fillory crashing together. To save them he will have to risk sacrificing everything.

The Magician’s Land is an intricate thriller, a fantastical epic, 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. It’s the story of a boy becoming a man, an apprentice becoming a master, and a broken land finally becoming whole.

3 edycje

Elias recenzuje The Magician's Land autorstwa Lev Grossman (Magicians, #3)

The Magician's Land (Goodreads)

4 gwiazdki

Content warning General spoilers

Oh boy, I have finally finished this series. I had a complicated relationship with the two books prior to this one, so it was entirely expected when I had complicated feelings about this one. As per usual, I'm writing this right as I finished reading.

For the positives, I can say that this book had a far more interesting start. I really enjoyed following Quentin after he was kicked out of Fillory. I actually found myself enjoying his character, which I was thoroughly surprised by. Plum was an interesting addition, too; I didn't necessarily love her, but she did add some interesting aspects to the plot. The whole bit with breaking the incorporate bond was my favorite part of the book, specifically. I really loved learning more about Mayakovsky and I honestly wish we had learned more about him throughout the book series. I wanted to know more about his background and upbringing as a magician and what he learned while bound to Breakbills south. It's understandable we couldn't go into that level of detail though.

For negatives, I really didn't like the Fillory bits in the beginning. Elliot was not what I expected character-wise, but that one's on me since I created my own ideas of what he was like from prior brief interactions. I feel like we never got to really experience Elliot, which is a shame. I feel like he could've been a really interesting addition to the plot. The bit at the end where Quentin finally understands the spell for turning magic back into matter felt rushed, and so did Quentin becoming god. I logically understand why those events needed to take place and how they make logical sense in-universe, I just wished we spent more time with Quentin where he slowly started piecing things together. I do like, however, that some growth was shown in Quentin's character when he relinquished control. For my last remark, there was just so much "I am 14 and this is deep" in these books. It never really calmed down as the series continued, and a lot of the time it was only worthy of an eye-roll.

Overall, I liked it better than the other books, but I didn't like it enough to give it a 4/5. I still have a lot of complicated feelings about the series, and honestly I felt like I was in a toxic relationship with it at times, but I made it far enough to read all of them. That's a feat within itself. So bravo, Lev Grossman, for making me read all 3. Glad to be able to ruminate on this series with the plot resolved.

Tematy

Fiction, fantasy, contemporary