Wednesday 25 June 2014

Waiting On Wednesday: The Magician's Land

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine, a great place to geek out over upcoming books!

My pick for this week is The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman, to be published by Viking in August. I’ve really enjoyed this series so far (yes, despite Quentin’s whining!) so I can’t wait for the conclusion. And not just because I share the same somewhat-guilty love of Narnia that seems to permeate these books! The Magician King had an excellent ending, and I do want to know what happens to Quentin now he’s been flung back into the real world. Plus the blurb is promising epic things. Ah portal fantasies, how I love you.


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 demi-monde 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.

9 comments:

  1. Great choice! This was my last WoW pick. Really looking forward to it!

    ReplyDelete
  2. This sounds really good! Added to my TBR list! Here's my Waiting on Wednesday!

    ReplyDelete
  3. I just finished the first book recently - still have to catch up with book two before I can officially look forward to this one :)

    ~Mogsy

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yeah you wouldn't want to skip it! I thought book two had some problems but was pretty good overall.

      Did you post your review of The Magicians yet? (Scampering off to check.)

      Delete
  4. I'm so excited the pubs is going to send me the trilogy and then I'm going to binge read it! I was lucky enough to have the author sign my autograph book at BEA and he even drew a sketch in there of what I think is scenery from the book? It looked pretty bare and minimal but really awesome too.

    Can't wait to get excited over this title with you!!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Now I am getting BEA envy all over again! Although that is seriously awesome. Did you post a photo of it somewhere? Very very curious :)

      And good luck with the binge-reading eh. I hope the series agrees with you!

      Delete