The Magician King by Lev Grossman.
This is the sequel to The Magicians, which I wrote about earlier this year.
Ultimately,
while this book also has a downer of an ending, it's a more fitting
downer of an ending. Also, while Quentin was still very much a
self-serving prat, he had his moments of growth and eventually became a
much fuller, more sympathetic, character than he was the first time
around.
I really enjoyed the filling in of Julia's backstory, of
her life during Quentin's years in book one, but I found the way they
were presented--as rotating chapters between chapters of the primary
story--disjointing. Ultimately they made for turning an easy read into a
longer read as I needed to take more breaks from all the jumping back
and forth.
And now that it's happened in two of the novels in
this trilogy, I have to wonder what is with this author and fox-rape?
Where that incident was terrible in the first book, it made sense as
part of the plot. In this book, more graphically, it felt gratuitous and
unnecessary.
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