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I still haven't read The Magicians. I saw the first season of the tv series, and enjoyed it, and I have the book, but just haven't gotten around to it. Everything I've read about Warp indicates that The Magicians is miles better � and I hope so.

The description says that Warp is "Unlike other self-indulgent, whiny narratives of post-graduation angst"� Which is funny. I haven't read many (any) such self-indulgent or whiny narratives, but Warp was pretty darned self-indulgent and angsty, and seemed simply too apathetic to be whiny. Hollis has wound up in his crappy apartment, which he can't afford, with no job and no future and no prospects, purely because of self-indulgent lassitude. He's a slug, an amorphous blob beginning to take the vague shape of a man.

I kept expecting something to happen - and when something did, I kept expecting it to change things somehow. But nothing did. Beginning to end, Hollis is an untethered balloon, and he's apparently leaking air. I hope I wasn't supposed to feel any sort of sympathy for him. This gets two stars rather than one because I've read worse - but it was a near thing.

This wasn't awful; I definitely didn't love it, but it also didn't actively make me want to quit. It also would not make me want to read The Magicians if I didn't know better. Good marketing strategy, Lev Grossman's publisher, to re-release this early work now. Well done.

The usual disclaimer: I received this book via Netgalley for review.