dingosenior79 's review for:

The Magicians by Lev Grossman
3.0

It's hard to understand how you get away with writing a book about Narnia without even thanking C.S. Lewis. It's also hard to imagine a book that simultaneously pilfers from Lewis & J.K. Rowling, but manages to steal the joy and wonder from both universes and replace it with a level of cynicism and dissatisfaction that Holden Caufield would be proud of. That may be precisely the point, but it doesn't make it any easier to suppress the urge to smack the protagonist into something more than a world-weary amoral slug.