Yvonne Zipp says Lev Grossman’s The Magician’s Land reminds her of Lewis’ The Last Battle while remaining original.
“I bet it’s because of heresy like that that the world is ending. Your earthy, irreverent sense of humor has doomed us all,” King Josh tells Queen Janet. (If Peter was “The Magnificent,” and Edmund was “The Just,” in Narnia, Janet of Fillory should just be known as “The Awesome.”)
If that’s not enough of a selling point, The Magician’s Land also features a motto that should be emblazoned on T-shirts, embroidered on pillows, and hung on walls in dorm rooms everywhere: “Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything.”
I read the free sample on the Nook, not likely to buy the whole thing. It’s ok, but it really felt like angsty teen Harry Potter plus pervasive profanity, set in Narnia.
(Oddly, I find that profanity in the narrator’s voice is more bothersome than from a character’s mouth. )
I may have forgotten what I read about earlier books in this series. What you say sounds vaguely familiar. Oh, well. I guess some readers like it.