Every month the readheads pick one book that all three of us read and review. Our book for August is Lev Grossman’s The Magicians.
Synopsis from Publisher’s Weekly:
Quentin Coldwater, a Brooklyn high school student devoted to a children’s series set in the Narnia-like world of Fillory, is leading an aimless existence until he’s tapped to enter a mysterious portal that leads to Brakebills College, an exclusive academy where he’s taught magic. Coldwater, whose special gifts enable him to skip grades, finds his family’s world mundane and domestic when he returns home for vacation. He loses his innocence after a prank unintentionally allows a powerful evil force known only as the Beast to enter the college and wreak havoc. Eventually, Coldwater’s powers are put to the test when he learns that Fillory is a real place and how he can journey there. Genre fans will easily pick up the many nods to J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis, not to mention J.R.R. Tolkien in the climactic battle between the bad guy and a magician.
Check back at the end of the month to see what we thought of this work!
Previous Books of the Month
- July 2010: N/A
- June 2010: Erica Bauermeister’ The School of Essential Ingredients
- May 2010: Paulo Coelho’s The Witch of Portobello
- April 2010: David Grann’s The Lost City of Z
- March 2010: N/A
- February 2010: Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City
- January 2010: Timothy Ferris’ Coming of Age in the Milky Way
- December 2009: George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones
- November 2009: Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind
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