Magician King (Grossman)

The Magician King (The Magicians Trilogy, 2)
Lev Grossman, 2012
Penguin Group USA
416 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780452298019


Summary
Quentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that Fillory—a fictional utopia—was actually real. But even as a Fillorian king, Quentin finds little peace. His old restlessness returns, and he longs for the thrills a heroic quest can bring.

Accompanied by his oldest friend, Julia, Quentin sets off—only to somehow wind up back in the real world and not in Fillory, as they'd hoped. As the pair struggle to find their way back to their lost kingdom, Quentin is forced to rely on Julia's illicitly-learned sorcery as they face a sinister threat in a world very far from the beloved fantasy novels of their youth. (From the publisher.)

This is the second book of the Magicians Trilogy: the first is The Magicians (2009), and the final is The Magician's Land (2014).