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  • The Magician's Land

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  • Written by: Lev Grossman
  • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
  • Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (124 ratings)

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The Magician's Land

Written by: Lev Grossman
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
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Publisher's Summary

The stunning conclusion to the New York Times best-selling Magicians trilogy.

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 grey magic and desperate characters. But all roads lead back to Fillory, and his new life takes him to old haunts, like Antarctica and the Netherlands, and buried secrets, and old friends he thought were lost forever. He uncovers the key to a sorcerous 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 climax, 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.

©2014 Lev Grossman (P)2014 Penguin Audio

What the critics say

“Richly imagined and continually surprising.... The strongest book in Grossman’s series. It not only offers a satisfying conclusion to Quentin Coldwater’s quests, earthly and otherwise, but also considers complex questions about identity and selfhood as profound as they are entertaining.... The Magician’s Land, more than any other book in the trilogy, wrestles with the question of humanity.... This is a gifted writer, and his gifts are at their apex in The Magician’s Land.” (Edan Lepucki, The New York Times Book Review)

“The strength of the trilogy lies...in the characters, whose inner lives and frailties Grossman renders with care and empathy.... Quentin[’s]...magical journey is deeply human.” (The New Yorker)

“Grossman makes it clear in the deepening complexity and widening scope of each volume that he understands the pleasures and perils of stories and believing in them.... The Magician's Land triumphantly answers the essential questions at the heart of the series, about whether magic belongs to childhood alone, whether reality trumps fantasy, even whether we have the power to shape our own lives in an indifferent universe.” (Gwenda Bond, The Los Angeles Times)

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An absolutely perfect ending.

Each book in this series has improved upon its predecessor. I didn’t think it was possible to improve on book 2 but Magicians Land is sheer perfection. Several moments made me want to stand up and applaud at its brilliance. I am thoroughly and irrevocably in love with this series.

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plot levels overlapping in excellence

loved how the series developed complexity. some tragedy was great. recommend to those seeking adventure

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Unbelievable

Somehow the most rivoting, profound, deeply engaging, and visually beautiful book series I've ever read. Thank you Lev!

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good beginning and end, slow middle

started good, ended good. the middle dragged on. a lot of the story feels like you are reading a different book that snuck its way in to the pages. very little relevance to the characters and not much progression, but it eventually comes back around.

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it's just not that great of a series.

it was good enough for me to finish. I kept hoping it would get better.

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