Quentin Coldwater, a teenager from Brooklyn who discovers that magic is real and that the world from his favorite fantasy series, Fillory and Further is real! Instead of attending a regular college with his friends, Julia Wicker and James, he goes to a magical boarding school called Brakebills. At Brakebills, Quentin and his classmates study magical theory and application. They soon learn, however, that magic is both wondrous and deadly. Quentin and his friends also discover that the world of Fillory, a realm written about in fictional books, is actually very real and is very, very different than the world portrayed by Christopher Plover, the Author of the Fillory and Further book series.
