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The Magicians
Lev Grossman


This book is for those readers who grew up with the Harry Potter books and are longing for something more, and for those readers who spent many hours with C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia and dreamed of finding a secret doorway into that magical land.  Lev Grossman (the book reviewer for Time magazine) has written a riveting novel of a group of students at a college of magic.  No wands, no owls. These coeds study magic -- and it's hard -- and participate in the typical aspects of collegiate life:  exams, drinking and relationships.  Graduation thrusts them into the real world, accomplished, brilliant, and terribly bored.  Until one member of the group finds an entry into the supposedly fictional world of Fillory, a land from a series of fantasy novels they all read as children.  A truly wonderful novel of the fantasy genre.  Very difficult to put down.