Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. Obsessed with the fantasy novels he read as a child he finds the real world just doesnt compare.Then one day it happens he stumbles unexpectedly into a hidden world and is invited to join a very exclusive college where he will learn the secrets of magic.But something is still missing.And now Quentin will do anything to find what hes always been looking for.Praise for The Magicians TrilogyThe best fantasy trilogy of the decade. Charles StrossThe most entertaining and compelling fantasy Ive read in a long time. The TimesLev Grossman has conjured a rare creature a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along... Literary perfection. Erin MorgensternMay just be the most subversive gripping and enchanting fantasy novel Ive read this century. Cory DoctorowDark and dangerous and full of twists. Hogwarts was never like this. George R. R. MartinSad hilarious beautiful and essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy. Joe HillA darkly cunning story about the power of imagination itself. The New YorkerThe Magicians ought to be required reading... a terrific at times almost painfully perceptive novel of the fantastic. Kelly LinkBrilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic taking whats simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. Naomi Novik