Il re mago

If Quentin Coldwater stumbled on a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, he’d constantly complain about how heavy it was and how the coins didn’t fit in any vending machines and why couldn't they have just put the money into a nice cashier's check that he could have fit neatly in his wallet and then Leggi tutto

The Continuing Adventures of a Smug Magical Asshole , as written by An Asshole. and now featuring The New Adventures of a Completely Self-Absorbed Bitch . i suppose i understand the acclaim that has been heaped on Grossman. he is playing with tropes as his characters play with magic. he has a puckish s Leggi tutto

If you didn't like the first one? Pass! You're not going to suddenly fall in love with these characters or this style of depressed storytelling. But for those of you who loved The Magicians , or maybe even those of you who were on the fence, I think this will be a winner for you. Because instead of s Leggi tutto

The Magicians, book #2 : After the thoroughly shocking genre busting end to the first book, you'd think that this is it now, we're in a magical real with a dark underbelly? Strike out! This sequel continues with what worked well in the first book, an ingenious mix of urban and dark fantasy, as we fol Leggi tutto

A book has never made me so angry before. I am absolutely bewildered that 93% of people like this book. No offense, but I think you all deserve a fucking double-slap across the face. This was, hands down, the worst book I've ever read. Where is the zero star possibility, Goodreads? Because, for thi

I am so annoyed by this book, and not for the reasons I thought I'd be. The two things that irritated me about the first book weren't as bad here--specifically, Quentin was less whiny (I couldn't stand him in the first book; he was more bearable here), and the sexism that ran through the first book

”She’d always liked Quentin, basically. He was sarcastic and spookily smart and, on some level, basically a kind person who just need a ton of therapy and maybe some mood-altering drugs. Something to selectively inhibit the voracious reuptake of serotonin that was obviously going on inside his skull Leggi tutto

This series can be really frustrating because it takes everything you expect and think you know and goes "....nah." I enjoyed this book so much more than the first one. The characters, while still realistic and frustrating, grew on me a lot and I found myself really caring for them. The introduction Leggi tutto

Let me begin this review by saying that I really enjoyed Lev Grossman's The Magicians . I didn't think it was perfect, by any means - I wasn't keen on Quentin, and the saga of his relationship with Alice and how he behaved about it really pissed me off - but altogether I found it to be an original, e Leggi tutto