The Magician's Land, by Lev Grossman, is the third and final part of the Magician's trilogy. By the time that I started to read this trilogy, the first two were already out. I quite enjoyed the wait, and having a book to look forward to. Magician's land continues the story of Quentin Coldwater, Brakebills school, underground magic, and the land of Fillory. I found that it brought a satisfying conclusion, although throughout the book I thought that the readers would be left hanging.
In the previous book, Quentin was banished from the land of Fillory which had been his home for many years. After a short-lived stent teaching a Brakebills, his old school of magic, Quentin, joins up with some underground magician thieves. Through a series of events unknowingly started in world war two, and recorded in Quentin's favourite childhood books (Narnia reference), Quentin is challenged with the task of saving a failing Fillory.
While I enjoyed the first book in this series the most, this is definitely second. I found that there were a lot of new characters, but in the end, the old favourites were still the key characters. I was concerned for the first part of this book, not for the characters, but for the plot. Somehow it all worked, but the ragtag group of magical thieves seemed like a very different book than I was expecting. Lev Grossman managed to make it all make sense, and looking back on the book, it all works.
