The Magician's Land

A Novel

By: Lev Grossman

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins

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

Critic reviews

“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)

The magicians land

Last book in the series great humor very adventurous a great read highly recommend awesome storyThe narrator did great it did meet my expectations I had read the first two or listened on audiobooks great

I cried at the end.

I'm so sad is all over! I want more. The story is just so pure and perfect and wonderful.... it's everything I've ever had in my head and I adore someone wrote it down and let me live it for a short time

Great read!

Amazing book with amazing characters. It kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time!

Wow!

What an ending. Lev Grossman writes fantasy like he's taking back the night. Maybe he his, and Mark Bramhall puts flesh to the characters in such a rare, delightful way, that I feel a bit lonely now for having finished the series. What a treat.

Fabulous

I thought the conclusion of the magician's trilogy was very exciting and would recommend it to all!

The narrator was perfect for this story.

This narrator has been around from the beginning, and I wondered in the first few hours of Magicians 1 if he was the right choice for the books. Now that I've completed the trilogy, I feel like he was PERFECT for the series, though a good number of people I know felt he was too dry/dull, making the first book hard to get through. So far I and a couple of people I got into this series grew to feel the same way that I do once they finished.

Don't even know why I'm so captivated

Sometimes a story just grabs you, I guess. I found these books extremely charming from the ridiculous magical tests to the other-worldly quality of Grossman's descriptions of animal minds.

Great Story!

This truly was a great ending to the story, although it did seem to leave possibility for a new chapter to unfold. I wait with bated breath...

Very satisfying ending.

Any additional comments?

I wrote a series review for the first book, but I always look to the third book reviews to make sure the author didn't spike the ball at the one yard line. Grossman doesn't. I thought the ending was about perfect.

Great Idea, left with questions

I love the idea and I like the trilogy overall but the last book leaves me with more questions than answers.