Finished "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman. This took far longer than it should have for me to read, largely because I had a lot of trouble getting into it. It felt like nothing happened -- at all -- for the first hundred+ pages, and when something did happen, it felt random, like the author was writing during NaNoWriMo and needed to shake things up a bit. After that, nothing really happened for a long time again. Much of the writing was telling instead of showing, leaving me generally unsatisfied with what I'm told did happen. And the main character was mostly useless as a way to get me, the reader, into the story. This is book one of a trilogy, but I do not hold any hope for the other two.
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