It centers around a boy named Quentin, a super genius who's never quite found his place. He is accepted to a school for magic called Brakebills. The magic in The Magicians is very different from HP- it's much more difficult, which is why it's treated as a collegiate education, and only accepts the best of the best.
Quentin also has an obsession with a fictional land called Fillory (clearly based on Narnia), which is part of why he wants to learn magic to begin with. I loved this aspect, because I have always adored the Narnia books and spent many hours of my childhood thinking about how I could get there.
The Magicians is much darker than I initially thought it would be, but that's not a bad thing. There were times where it felt very rushed because it's not a terribly long book, but spans a long period of time. And some of the characters were terribly frustrating, but they were all well-developed enough to still be engrossing even when I wanted to shake them. I ended up really enjoying it, and just checked out the sequel from the library.
Oddly enough, my dad was reading this at the same time I was- I don't know if he's finished it yet, but I thought it was funny that we both read it without having talked about it.
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