- Published: 3 October 2011
- ISBN: 9781446457863
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 560
The Magician King
(Book 2)
- Published: 3 October 2011
- ISBN: 9781446457863
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 560
An excellent follow-up to a brilliant first installment.
Civilian Reader
Lev Grossman's novel is full of magic ... stupendous urban fantasy ... The Magician King is Harry Potter for grown-ups who have learned to hate Harry Potter
The Guardian
Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom-not to be missed.
Kirkus
A story about extraordinary deeds, heroism, magic and love -- all the stuff that makes escapism go. It's a fantastic trick that makes this into a book that entertains and disturbs at the same time
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Grossman's trademark eloquent-yet-hip writing style flourishes in this sequel, a creative and entertaining novel well worth the wait
Greg Bruce, Boswell Book Company
Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along... Literary perfection.
Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus
The best fantasy trilogy of the decade.
Charles Stross
The most entertaining and compelling fantasy I've read in a long time.
The Times
Grossman's psychologically complex characters and grim reckoning with tragic sacrifice far surpass anything in C.S. Lewis' pat Christian allegory. Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom-not to be missed.
Kirkus
Lev Grossman's The Magicians was my favorite novel of 2009 by a landslide, cleverly combining aspects of classic fantasy with modern literature and pop culture. Grossman's trademark eloquent-yet-hip writing style flourishes in this sequel, a creative and entertaining novel well worth the wait
Greg Bruce, Boswell Book Company
Somewhere between Juster's Phantom Tollbooth and Narnia, as told by Philip Roth ... The Magician King is at once an existential exercise that angrily shakes escapism by its shoulders and demands that life have a purpose, and a story about extraordinary deeds, heroism, magic and love. It's a fantastic trick that makes this into a book that entertains and disturbs at the same time
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing