The Magicians: A Novel That Stabs Itself in the Heart

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Go ahead and click here to buy, but don’t say I didn’t warn ya.

By Madeline Iva

How do you destroy the genre ofyour own book? Lev Grossman managed this nifty little trick in his breakout novel The Magicians: A Novel[image error]THE MAGICIANS–a book that SFF people love to hate. Meanwhile, everyoneelse is raving about it. This fantasy book was clearly a huge best seller, but when checking out the reviews I noticedamong theglowing accolades, a few ominouswarnings: the book was derivati...