This unusually slim fantasy book begins with a generic set-up. To save her teacher’s life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thane’s still-beating heart-and reveal the very soul of the man. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic.Īn Excisioner - a practitioner of dark, flesh magic - invades the cottage and rips Thane’s heart from his chest.
Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined - animating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic… forever. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. The others… well, I’ll tell you about them when I finish my reviews.įirst sentence: For the past five years, Ceony had wanted to be a Smelter.Ĭeony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. I read the entire Paper Magician trilogy during the last week and this first part was just the kind of shallow, silly, but cute story I needed. Whether it’s through a biting remark from Margo, or a sarcastic quip from Alice, The Magicians shows that it knows exactly what it’s about.Sometimes, when you’re stressed and a big, fat fantasy book is just not something you want to start right now, you grab a thin little volume that sounds as fluffy as can be. One of my favorite aspects of the show is just how wild and outlandish much of the plot is. From Season 1 through the now-airing Season 4, The Magicians has crafted a world and characters that are (mostly) easy to fall in love with. The show has garnered obvious comparisons to Harry Potter (I mean, I just made one myself) and even large-scale fantasy shows like Game of Thrones. Quentin and crew find their way to Fillory-what they thought to be a fictional land existing only in their childhood stories. The main character, Quentin Coldwater, gets accepted into Brakebills where he and his friends learn to cast spells and eventually fight the Big Bad known as The Beast. A PG-13-rated (and frankly, sometimes R) version of Hogwarts, if you will. Based on Lev Grossman’s book of the same name, SYFY’s The Magicians centers around a group of students at Brakebills University, a school for magic.
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