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baileyvanclieaf 's review for:
The Magicians
by Lev Grossman
While reading this book, it became very obvious to me that I was not the target audience of this series. Usually this is no problem, but I found these characters to be wholly unrelatable and incredibly frustrating.
The pacing was consistent but way too fast. Grossman glazes over crucial moments in a paragraph or two - if they even happen onscreen at all - mechanically moving on to the next hit of action as if he's working his way through a checklist.
I did really enjoy the theme of Quentin struggling with coming to terms with the fact that it isn't a place that makes you happy, but consistent effort and mindset. However, the speed at which the plot progresses didn't really leave a lot of room to explore those themes which I found frustrating.
This book could have been 1,000 pages long and I probably would have enjoyed it more. Grossman speeds through the world building to focus on the action, leaving the world just developed enough to move onto the next thing even though he teases the reader with lore at every twist and turn, he never delivers on actually giving it to us.
Great concept in theory, but I really feel like the delivery was botched. I probably won't bother reading the 2nd and 3rd books.
The pacing was consistent but way too fast. Grossman glazes over crucial moments in a paragraph or two - if they even happen onscreen at all - mechanically moving on to the next hit of action as if he's working his way through a checklist.
I did really enjoy the theme of Quentin struggling with coming to terms with the fact that it isn't a place that makes you happy, but consistent effort and mindset. However, the speed at which the plot progresses didn't really leave a lot of room to explore those themes which I found frustrating.
This book could have been 1,000 pages long and I probably would have enjoyed it more. Grossman speeds through the world building to focus on the action, leaving the world just developed enough to move onto the next thing even though he teases the reader with lore at every twist and turn, he never delivers on actually giving it to us.
Great concept in theory, but I really feel like the delivery was botched. I probably won't bother reading the 2nd and 3rd books.