I am a sucker for a trilogy. So I knew I would read these all as soon as I started the first. But - it was hard work to get through the The Magician King - the second one. I felt off kilter all the time. They didn't behave the way I wanted a magical world to behave. I wanted happy magic. I know that Harry Potter was dark - but I always knew the good would win. Here - I wasn't so sure. It never felt like a done deal - it was always an option that the dark would just be.
On top of that I really didn't like Quentin - the main character. He was a pompous ass and magic just made him a magical ass. But the Magician King wasn't really his story. It was much more about Julia - Quentin's high school pre-magic love interest in the first book. And although her story was intriguing - it was an even darker kind of magic. It was tied up in extreme teen-age angst and I am just tired of that.
But - I am a sucker for a trilogy. So I kept going.
And then I read the last book - the Magician's Land.
And this one I liked.
Quentin was dethroned and humanized. He couldn't toss magic around as easily instead he had to really work! And as he worked he became so much more likeable! And he sacrificed himself for others - always a great and heroic thing to do! And magic changed. I like that!
So at the end of these three - I can say I am happy I read them.
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