A review by panxa
The Magicians: Alice's Story by Pius Bak, Lev Grossman, Lilah Sturges

I'm not sure how I feel about this one. It was well written. I immensely enjoyed certain sentences. But most of the characters were awful people, and awful things happened to them, and in the end I didn't feel a sense of resolution. Or maybe it just wasn't satisfying? It shares aspects with Ellen Kushner's Tam Lin, but that book has a happy ending and this one just has a promise of more shit to come. That said, it was a well written story that I didn't wholly enjoy, so go for it if you like tales with a darker, nasty bent.