Quentin Coldwater is a high school student from Brooklyn who, along with best friends James and Julia, attends an advanced school. He loves a series of books called "Fillory and Further," which involve the children of the Chatwin family discovering a Narnia -esque land called Fillory. On the day of his Princeton interview, he instead is examined for entrance to Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, the only school for magic in North America. He, along with 19 others, are accepted to the university and he moves there at once.
Julia fails her entrance test to Brakebills and is not admitted. As per protocol, Julia's memory is wiped to prevent her from remembering magic's existence or the school itself. Despite this, a portion of Julia's memory remains intact and she is unable to return to her normal life — though Quentin will not discover this until years later. After beginning his studies at Brakebills, it soon becomes apparent to Quentin that magic is incredibly difficult and tedious to learn, as each spell must be varied in dozens of ways, depending on factors such as the phase of the moon and the closest body of water.
The curriculum involves learning many old and lost languages, and seemingly endless hand positions.
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Despite this, Quentin and his classmates Penny and Alice are able to move up a year by compressing their first year of studies. One day during class, an otherworldly horror referred to as "the Beast" enters Brakebills and eats a student before the rest of the faculty are able to drive it away.
Third year students are assigned a Discipline. Though Quentin cannot be assigned one, he and Alice are sorted into the Physical magic group. During the spring semester of their fourth year, they are all sent to Brakebills South in Antarctica, where Quentin and Alice are turned into foxes, and fall in love. Upon graduation, Quentin and the other Physical Kids spend their days and nights in hedonistic pursuits. While still looking for a purpose, his erstwhile classmate Penny arrives with news about travel between worlds and Quentin discovers that Fillory is real.
The group finds magical wonders in Fillory, but they eventually discover The Beast, who is revealed to be Martin Chatwin, the lost eldest child in "The Wandering Dunes", who has sacrificed his humanity in order to stay in the magical world forever. After a brutal fight, Alice sacrifices herself to kill Martin, Penny loses both of his hands and chooses to remain in an empty city between the worlds, and a gravely injured Quentin is left in the care of a group of centaurs while the others fear that he will never awaken from his coma. Upon awakening many months later, Quentin becomes depressed and disillusioned, especially when Jane, the youngest Chatwin, reveals herself to have been pulling the strings throughout her siblings' and Quentin's stories.
By using a magical time-traveling device, she finally succeeded in killing Martin by leading Quentin and his friends to the confrontation.
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Back on Earth, Quentin takes a high-paying non-magical job where he spends his time playing video games. Grossman has publicly discussed his literary influences and has referred to T. White as his "literary mentor", particularly to the influence that The Once and Future King has had on his work. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. Norrell , [4] [3] Watchmen , [4] Larry Niven's Warlock stories , [4] and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories , [3] while the film Highlander helped influence the feel of the novel's world. He consequently replaced its appearance with the similarly themed Neitherlands instead.
The review by The A. Club gave the novel an "A", calling it "the best urban fantasy in years, a sad dream of what it means to want something badly and never fully reach it.
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With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. Along with Plum, a brilliant young undergraduate with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. But all roads lead back to Fillory, and his new life takes him to old haunts, like Antarctica, and to buried secrets and old friends he thought were lost forever.
He uncovers the key to a sorcery masterwork, a spell that could create magical utopia, a new Fillory—but casting it will set in motion a chain of events that will bring Earth and Fillory crashing together.
To save them he will have to risk sacrificing everything. Quentin Coldwater should be happy.
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He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that Fillory—a fictional utopia—was actually real. But even as a Fillorian king, Quentin finds little peace. His old restlessness returns, and he longs for the thrills a heroic quest can bring.