The Magicians

not exactly what i expected. i had read a number of reviews that compare “the magicians” to a grown up harry potter. i believe that is misleading.

while the basic day to day life of the story is potteresque, in that it's a special school for magic, the comparison really kind of stops there. the mythology and driving plot points are all chronicles of narnia, in a thinly fictionalized form of course.

honestly, i'm not sure what to think yet. i expected something different and so don't really trust myself to review it on it's own merits rather than how it differed from my own expectation. so i will say this only:

it is solidly written.
it was entertaining.
i learned 3 new words.