Joe Hill, author of Horns, Locke & Key and NOS4A2 “Sad, hilarious, beautiful & essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy.” … Grossman’s sensibilities are thoroughly adult, his narrative dark and dangerous and full of twists. “ The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. It has now been published in more than 25 countries and adapted as an hour-long TV drama on Syfy. The Magicians was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. The Magicians is a grand, glittering fantasy that reinterprets the grand tradition of C.S. That changes when Quentin finds himself admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the practice of modern sorcery.īut magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure and meaning he thought it would-until he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. Compared to that, everything in his real life just seems gray and colorless. Quentin Coldwater is a high school senior, but he’s still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read when he was little, about the adventures of five children in a magical land called Fillory.
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