The other dimension of my disappointment was that I clearly retained nothing between books. As if it was supposed to in the first place. My issues with The Magicians and The Magician King could be summarized as: “So what?” So what if being an adult magician in the real world sucks? So what if Fillory is real but you got kicked out? Quentin Coldwater was an annoying, unsympathetic protagonist who whined because his life didn’t make any sense. This is a series that has steadily improved over the three books, with The Magician’s Land probably offering the most stable and enjoyable story. ![]() At the very least I was hoping to find closure. ![]() But there it was on my library’s New Books shelf … it seemed almost rude not to borrow it. He and Alice are the only ones who return to Earth, where they create a new land of their own, together.I wasn’t going to go out of my way to read The Magician’s Land. He then gives up his god powers, for Fillory can exist without a god for the time being. Quentin, now imbued with the power of a god, fixes Fillory and restores it to its former glory. Umber, Ember’s brother, willingly gives himself up for sacrifice. Quentin becomes a dragon to beat Ember into submission, and then becomes a man once more to kill Ember. There is one way to save Fillory, and that is with the sacrifice of holy blood from a god, just as a sacrifice of holy blood originally created Fillory. They confront Ember, having realized his plan: With the journal, he would begin a new world according exactly to his specification while Fillory died. Quentin and Alice then journey to Fillory as it collapses in on itself while a war rages across the land. The bird also appears, confessing he works for Ember, and it is Ember who wants the journal. They discover that Fillory still has potential, but how to save it is unknown. They seek out his help to find a solution. Together with Eliot and Plum, Quentin and Alice journey to the Neitherlands to find Penny, who is still tending to things with the Order. Alice is enraged that she is now mortal once more, but slowly comes to forgive Quentin for restoring her, and for the bad past between them. Quentin manages to trap Alice’s niffin, and to restore her to a human being. Quentin is stunned to find that Alice’s niffin inhabits this new world. In the real world, Quentin creates a new land with a spell found in Rupert’s journal. Ultimately, Eliot crosses over into the real world to see if Quentin has any ideas. All four determine that they will find a way to prevent this. Meanwhile, in Fillory, King Eliot, Queen Janet, King Josh, and Queen Poppy receive word from Ember the Ram god that Fillory’s time is limited, and that Fillory will one day cease to exist. Why the bird wants this journal is unknown to anyone, and the bird insists this is no one else’s concern but his own. Quentin and Plum successfully steal the suitcase and journal, and hole up in an apartment in New York’s West Village. Inside is a journal with a spell that can be used to create an entirely new magical land, such as Fillory. A blackbird hires them to steal a suitcase that once belonged to Rupert Chatwin. Quentin takes Plum under his wing, and the two become involved in the criminal world of magic. Plum is expelled and Quentin is fired for this. Quentin manages to save her, but chooses not to attempt to destroy Alice. She and some of her friends decide to play a magic prank on another student for stealing wine from their club, but the prank backfires when Plum accidentally nearly releases Alice’s niffin. Plum, a senior student at Brakebills, and a descendent of Rupert Chatwin from the “Fillory and Further” novels, looks forward to life after college. There, he becomes a professor of Mending Magic, growing comfortable with his life at the school, but remains haunted by the past – especially by the death of Alice. He ultimately decides to return to Brakebills, to at least exist in the world of magic peripherally through it. Having been exiled from Fillory, Quentin, now nearing the age of 30, struggles back in the real world. “The Magician’s Land” is a young adult fantasy novel by Lev Grossman, is the third part of his “Magicians” trilogy, and which follows the continuing adventures of Quentin Coldwater after his dethroning and banishment from the magical land of Fillory, and his efforts to nevertheless save Fillory once more.
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