What are you reading right now? (possible RotE spoilers)

[FoolishGirl]

I have come across the author Lev Grossman. My local paper calls The Magicians "Harry Potter for adults". Before I hit "Buy" on the Kindle, though I'd ask here to see if anyone has read it.

Well, I've read the first book and am now onto the second (Magician King). I can't say the books bowled me over, but they are interesting. The main character, Quentin, reminds me of Holden Caufield, a tortured and gawky adolescent too smart for his surroundings, until he finds his place at Brakebills (the magical college). The world of Brakebills is absorbing, but the writing, though often brilliant, is so abrupt sometimes that the plot moves too quickly for comfort. Character development is uneven, so that you don't really get to care that much about these students and their eventual quest to visit the Narnia-like world of Fillory. Second book more of the same, pretty much. I'd give the books 3.5 stars out of 5.