The other major plot involves the death of Fillory. Thus, the major theme of this book: coming to terms with the end of childhood, whatever that might mean. The plot regularly slows down while characters talk about their parental issues and the moments that forced them to leave their innocence behind. While the heist is planned, we are treated to chapters set in Fillory featuring Quentin’s friends. To get money to fund his research, he takes a job to steal a mysterious case with some tie to Fillory for two million dollars. So, Quentin finds work at his old magic school and settles down to, more quietly and cautiously, find a way to reunite with his friends.Ī dramatic chase and confrontation lead to Quentin’s expulsion from the school, leaving him with no childhood refuges. You can never recapture what you had and expected as a child. As he’s gotten older, he’s learned that happiness is always tempered with imperfection when you’re an adult. In the first book in the series, The Magicians, Quentin irritated me so much that it soured the book for me. Quentin Coldwater was exiled from Fillory in the previous books and has been searching for a way to return ever since, as well as figure out a way to resurrect his lost girlfriend. All of the books center on Quentin Coldwater, more or less, who embodies all of these problems more than any of his friends.
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One layer below that, as we learn in The Magician’s Land, it’s about a group of very sensitive and intelligent people who’ve had their hearts broken by their parents and have no good models for how to be adults. One layer down, it’s about a group of very talented people who have serious personality and self-esteem issues who have too much power. They become high kings and queens of the land, have adventures, and play with magic.
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On the surface, the series is about a group of magically gifted people who discover that the setting of their favorite childhood stories is real. I wanted him to have a strong bond with a woman that he had no romantic tie to, a totally platonic bond, which he has, but not enough of.Lev Grossman’s The Magician’s Land is a satisfying and cathartic conclusion to a very smart fantasy series. At the same time, he needed someone who could stand up to him and give him s–t. She’s there because-it wasn’t feasible, narratively speaking, to give him a child, but I wanted someone where he was in a kind of mentor relationship with, that he felt responsible for, which was a new kind of relationship for him, but I felt it was a good one. And I wanted to see what kind of power a happy magician would have, or a stable magician would have. I strongly, in the earlier books, identified magical ability and power with a sense of pain, that it was something that broken people can do. But she’s very high-functioning, she’s very engaged with the world, she’s got a great sense of humor, a great sense of joy, and a can-do attitude. Plum has a dark side, she’s got her secret that she’s hiding. Most other characters whose point of view we see have major disorders of one sort or another. But I wanted a character who was high-functioning. Plum’s in there partly because I wanted to have an undergraduate through whose eyes we could see Brakebills a little bit.
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