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Quentin Coldwater is a high school senior, but he’s still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read when he was little, about the adventures of five children in a magical land called Fillory. Compared to that, everything in his real life just seems gray and colorless. That changes when Quentin finds himself admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the practice of modern sorcery.

Quentin Coldwater est un adolescent mélancolique, dont la vie est transformée lorsqu'il est recruté par Brakebills, une école conçue pour les magiciens. Il s'y plaît et en oublie Brooklyn et les Chroniques de Fillory, les romans de fantasy où il se réfugiait auparavant.