why i picked itI started watching the TV show based on Lev Grossman's Magicians series and I loved it. I binged a lot of it on Netflix. So I thought I'd add it to my TBR. When it was available on Libby a while ago, I thought I'd check it out and see how it compared to the show! summaryQuentin Coldwater has always been different. He's been a geek and obsessed with a children's book series, but one day he finds out that the magic he's always admired in books isn't as fictional as he originally thought. He gets admitted into a prestigious school for magic, meets a few friends, and goes on some crazy adventures. Soon, he even learns that the world he used to read about is actually real, though it is much different than it was described to be. He and his friends have to learn to work together and use their skills to bring peace back to a world that is in peril. what i likedAnother great world hidden in New York. I liked how similar it was to the TV show (or how similar they made the show to the books). It made it easy for me to follow along with the audiobook since I typically don't like listening to fantasy books because it's harder for me to get into the world than reading them. I was able to feel like I was at Breakbills with the students. I also loved the characters. Quentin started out so awkward, and ended up really finding himself and his confidence throughout the book. Alice is so sweet, but she grows and becomes more confident herself. The other Physical Magic students are so unique and funny, and they taught Quentin a lot about life and living. what i didn't likeFirst off, this book was a lot more crass than I was expecting. The show is inappropriate many times, but I felt like it was done slightly more…tasteful(?) if that's the right way to say it? Probably because it's on public television for more eyes to see, but still. I was caught off guard by some of the things said and done in the book. Another thing I didn't like was that it was SO DANG LONG. The audiobook was like 17+ hours, which is just so long. And there is wayyyyy too much shoved in this one book. It could have EASILY been split into at least 2 or 3 books in the series, but instead there was a lot happening. You see Quentin from the end of high school all the way through 4 years at Breakbills, and then a continued few years after that. Lately I've read a few books that tend to cover this large amount of time in one book, and I think it's becoming one of the worst types of books I read. There's just too much to cover, and the book could have been wrapped up so much sooner. It could have been split up more, or it could have just been condensed down. I don't know. It's just something that I've noticed in this book, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and She's Come Undone. I'm not a fan. overall impression 🌟🌟🌟🌟So, the book was pretty good. I did like the storyline, and I really liked the world. I just wish that the characters were a little more lovable at times, and I wanted more books instead of one majorly long one.
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