(Contemporaries, observe: All three Magicians books tap out at around 400 pages. He can weave more swords and sorcery into a few pages than some writers can into a whole goddamn thousand-page book. Grossman, who works by day as the book critic for Time magazine, is enormously talented. But a conclusion to what, exactly? Is the saga a truly great, timeless classic, worthy of shelf space alongside the masters? They! The ancient beings who live underground and make these sorts of proclamations.) That first part is hard to dispute-it is a pretty perfect conclusion. What are we to make of Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy? Its final installment, The Magician’s Land, came out in August, and reviews glowed bright, almost embarrassingly so: They’re calling it the perfect conclusion to one of the great fantasy series of our time.
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