Quentin Coldwater has lost everything.
He has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood
dreams that he once ruled. Everything he had fought so hard for, not to mention
his closest friends, is sealed away in a land Quentin may never again visit.
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. Meanwhile, the magical barriers that keep
Fillory safe are failing, and barbarians from the north have invaded. Eliot and
Janet, the rulers of Fillory, embark on a final quest to save their beloved
world, only to discover a situation far more complex—and far more dire—than
anyone had envisioned.
Along with Plum, a brilliant young
magician with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path
through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. His new
life takes him back to old haunts, like Antarctica and the Neitherlands, and
old friends he thought were lost forever. He uncovers buried secrets and hidden
evils and ultimately the key to a sorcerous masterwork, a spell that could
create a magical utopia. But all roads lead back to Fillory, where Quentin must
face his fears and put things right or die trying.
In The Magician’s Land, Quentin and
Fillory come full circle. Quentin becomes not only a master magician in trying
to save Fillory, but also comes to his own as a man. The book opens when he’s
30 – having come so far from the rather selfish prick of the first book.
There are new characters introduced,
such as the Plum whose secret comes into play in a big way. What I love the
best here – I can’t say – so what I love second best is more background on the
five Chatwin children in the form a lost diary by Rupert Chatwin whose
revelations differ markedly from the fiction Christopher Plover wrote.
The final installment is a spectacular, bittersweet end to this series.
The final installment is a spectacular, bittersweet end to this series.
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