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The Magicians
George R.R. Martin says "The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. . . . Hogwarts was never like this." Quentin Coldwater has outgrown children's fantasy novels, but he can't stop reading his favorite series about a magical world called Fillory. When he accidentally interviews Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy instead of Princeton--and gets in, he learns that magic is far more than child's play. Quentin and his friends experience a mix of "real world" college rites of passage and harrowing magical feats as they enter adulthood.
About the Book
Publisher’s description:
Like everyone else, precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater assumes that magic isn’t real, until he finds himself admitted to a very secretive and exclusive college of magic in upstate New York. There he indulges in joys of college-friendship, love, sex, and booze- and receives a rigorous education in modern sorcery. But magic doesn’t bring the happiness and adventure Quentin thought it would. After graduation, he and his friends stumble upon a secret that sets them on a remarkable journey that may just fulfill Quentin’s yearning. But their journey turns out to be darker and more dangerous than they’d imagined. Psychologically piercing and dazzlingly inventive, The Magicians, the prequel to the New York Times bestselling book The Magician King and the #1 bestseller The Magician’s Land, is an enthralling coming-of-age tale about magic practiced in the real world-where good and evil aren’t black and white, and power comes at a terrible price.
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