"In the end, we get plenty of the good stuff - epic battles, dastardly betrayals, wild magic, desperate duels and enchanted swords - but the final chapters also give us something more:

Healing, grace, understanding and catharsis - as well as a glimpse into our own troubled times, and how they really are no different from any other.

We are all a part of this story, shaping it as we go, a little less heroically than those towering figures in the songs and ballads who came before, but still fumbling along as best we can.

The losers and the misfits alongside the heroes and the kings."

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Just finished it and then saw this review, which is spot on, I believe.

I liked reading his The Magicians books years ago, and the tv show wasn't terrible, either.

I put this right up there (almost!) with the legendary Gene Wolfe's:

"The Knight Wizard" two book series, The Knight and The Wizard... the article doesn't mention him, though it makes comparisons to Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.

Wolfe also wrote Sci-Fi; he was made a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and is best known for his, 'Book of the New Sun' Sci-Fi series.