Content Warning: Sexual Assault 

1 sentence summary: This is a continuation of the Magician’s series, where Quentin Coldwater finds himself learning more about magic and his place in the world through friendship, battle, and his own depressive state.

My thoughts on the book: I hardly ever find it appropriate to write a story where it requires somebody getting assaulted to find their place in the world. This seemed to be a huge point in Julia‘s development in the story. This is also the only spoiler that I will give, but I think it’s important for people to recognize that it is happening for their mental health’s sake. I still don’t fully understand the apparent necessity in continuous language of fat phobia used throughout the entire book. 

Aside from these very glaring turn offs for me. The rest of the book felt flat and uninspiring to me. I’m still going to finish out the series, just because the show meant so much to me. So this is probably my biggest bookish hot take. But I just feel like the script for the show had much more thought put into it and it made it much more enjoyable. (The assault still happens in the show too, which I’m not at all happy about either, but that’s my biggest qualm there)