The Magicians Trilogy Boxed Set

The Magicians; The Magician King; The Magician's Land

Hardcover

Published Aug. 5, 2014 by Viking.

ISBN:
978-0-525-42734-6
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4 stars (69 reviews)

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Review of 'The Magicians Trilogy Boxed Set' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

2/23/2020: after a million recommendations from my sister along with an assurance that it gets GREAT in season 2, I gave the show another try. The first few episodes are not good. The show starts to get decent about halfway through season 1, and quite good about 3/4 of the way through season 1, and then does become actually great in season 2, and it's now one of my favorites. I like it so much I went back to read the books again. And whoa the show is so very different --not so much an adaptation as "inspired by", and it gets better as it moves along and deviates more and more from the books. The books are enjoyable though the first feels aimless and all quentin all the time is a lot to take--i don't think I'd rate it 4 stars today--but 2 and 3 are quite good. Re: …

Review of 'The Magicians Trilogy Boxed Set' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This was a very enjoyable series, and I was satisfied with the open-ended way the author left it. Though I found Grossman's writing style pleasing, I found that I never got attached to any of the characters. I liked them all well enough, but in a more detached way than usual, especially considering that I'd just followed some of them through three books.

And just a side question: After Quentin was kicked out of Fillory by Ember, why did he never spend any time in Venice? That beautiful Palazzo was never mentioned again...not to be overly materialistic...

Anyway, these books were fun, and I'm glad I read them.

Review of 'The Magicians Trilogy Boxed Set' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A perfectly fine end to a one-of-a-kind series...but...

I don't know. Maybe I'm overthinking this – read it yourself and let me know – but for a series of that based itself on the premise of life in a dark, difficult world (where not even magic can buy happiness), this series ended a little too neatly. Several times near the end, I began to realize that everyone was going to get what they wanted. It felt Twilight-y: ignore all the difficulties and open threads, kids, because it will all work out in the end!

There's nothing wrong with that kind of sweetness, of course – not in principle, anyway. But in this other-Earth, where the real world ends up being more difficult than childhood dreams, it gets in the way.

Interestingly, however, the "homage-to-real-life" themes of this book create their own problem. Chief of these: if we assume that Quentin …

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