Edmund Pevensie Goes to Hogwarts and Never Meets Aslan
In the end, that’s what The Magicians is really about. Nasty, sulky, selfish Edmund wandering around being envious of everyone else for the entire book, with no reformation. And then he gets to be King anyway.
The NY Times reviewer who panned this book may have been completely wrong in what he said about fantasy in general, but he’s completely right in what he said specifically about this book.
