Finished reading: The Magicians by Lev Grossman.

It was not at all what I expected. Quentin is an unlikable main character; Penny and Eliot are hardly fleshed out; and Alice… well, I like Alice a lot. I really get the feeling Alice is the true main character and we’re just seeing it from Quentin’s point of view.

That said, it’s a welcome take on magical university being as hard or harder than an engineering degree instead of the floofy unconsidered mess that is Hogwarts.

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