Deze serie dompelt lezers onder in een wereld van magie, waar getalenteerde jongvolwassenen navigeren door het verraderlijke landschap van een geheime magische universiteit. Al snel ontdekken ze dat magie niet de grillige ontsnapping is die ze zich hadden voorgesteld, maar een gevaarlijke kracht met diepgaande gevolgen. De verhalen verkennen thema's als desillusie, het verlies van onschuld en de strijd om betekenis en doel te vinden in een wereld die zowel betoverend als diep gebrekkig is.
Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. After he graduates from college, he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory--the land of the fantasy novels they read as children--is real and much darker and more dangerous than they could have imagined.
Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are starting to pall. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a magical sailing ship and set out on an errand to the wild outer reaches of their kingdom. Their pleasure cruise becomes an adventure when the two are unceremoniously dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parent's house in Chesterton, Massachusetts. And only the black, twisted magic that Julia learned on the streets can save them.
superb' - JUNOT DIAZ, author of DROWN and THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO'A sophisticated, subtle novel that is also magical fun' - THE TIMES'Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along .