“The Magician’s Land” opens with Quentin in the unexpected position of trying to earn a little cash alongside some people from the margins of the magical world. By the end of the second book, Quentin has been kicked out of Fillory, not because of any magical misdeeds, but because his attempt to avoid conflict with an old high school friend, Julia, leads her down a ruinously destructive path that he could have prevented by helping her. The discovery that Fillory is real comes with its downsides and leads to tremendous loss. Even the introduction of a new character, Plum, as a sort of audience surrogate questioning the proceedings to elicit background is not quite enough to make what happens here totally explicable to newcomers.īut he learns all too quickly that a world with magic is just as full of heartbreak and cynicism as the one he was used to. In other words, the evolving portrait of Quentin is that of a reasonably realistic young person, albeit one with impressive magic powers, which generally only serves to exacerbate his missteps.Īnyone who hasn’t been following Quentin’s story may find the action a little confusing in “The Magician’s Land,” the latest and last book of the series, given how much of what transpires is payoff on the first two books. He has had a nasty habit of getting everything he wants and still feeling unhappy, then ruining everything in an attempt to fix the problem. Mathieu BourgoisĪnyone who has been following the life story of Quentin Coldwater, the central character of Lev Grossman’s “Magicians” trilogy, has at one point or another wanted to reach into the books and shake him. Lev Grossman’s popular Magicians trilogy ends with Quentin’s future optimistic.
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