what_is_daphne_reading 's review for:

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

3.5

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This is the sort of book that had it been about a character I was already in love with, say Cardan, I would’ve eaten right up. Literally tell me

Everything about him. Let me go through the minutia of his days and thoughts. As it was, I’d just met Quentin and wasn’t sure if I liked him enough to be really into this. Essentially nothing happens and everything happens. It is the day to day of Quentin’s life after having discovered that magic is real and testing into a special college for magicians. He falls in love with everybody. He is attracted to basically every woman he sees. When he stumbles on Elliot and some dude, even though he isn’t gay he’s like, “he didn’t even ask me! 😔” He is petty and self absorbed, but doubts himself constantly, and kinda always sad or unhappy. I love him. 🤷🏾‍♀️ I don’t know people, I don’t make the rules.

Anyway, there is no real plot for like 80% of the book and if you really think about it, the last 20% isn’t really a plot either mostly just stuff that happened on a grander scale. 

Part of me wants to read the next book just to see if like, a story starts to emerge that is something besides Quentin’s life and everything he has thought and done. Yet, another part of me is just fine with leaving Quentin where we left him.