His new life takes him back to old haunts, like Antarctica and the Neitherlands, and old friends he thought were lost forever. Along with Plum, a brilliant young magician with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. Eliot and Janet, the rulers of Fillory, embark on a final quest to save their beloved world, only to discover a situation far more complex-and far more dire-than anyone had envisioned. Meanwhile, the magical barriers that keep Fillory safe are failing, and barbarians from the north have invaded. But he can't hide from his past, and it's not long before it comes looking for him. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. He has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical world of his childhood dreams that he once ruled. The Magician's Land: Quentin Coldwater has lost everything.

As the pair struggle to find their way back to their lost kingdom, Quentin is forced to rely on Julia's illicitly learned sorcery as they face a sinister threat in a world very far from the beloved fantasy novels of their youth. Accompanied by his oldest friend, Julia, Quentin sets off-only to somehow wind up back in the real-world and not in Fillory, as they'd hoped. His old restlessness returns, and he longs for the thrills a heroic quest can bring.

But even as a Fillorian king, Quentin finds little peace. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that Fillory-a fictional utopia-was actually real. The Magician King: Quentin Coldwater should be happy. No one who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination. The Magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams may have come true. A high school math genius, he's secretly fascinated with a series of children's fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. The Magicians:Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable.

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