Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Grew Up… in Brooklyn, where he attended a prestigious high school with his best friends, James and Julia. All of them were obsessed with the children’s book series Fillory and Further: a Narnia-like adventure about travel to a magical land.
Living… at the secret school called Brakebills. When Quentin went to what he thought was an interview for Princeton, he ended up passing an admittance test to Brakebills, where he now goes to study magic.
Profession… student at Brakebills. Studying magic is something that Quentin has dreamed about, but as it turns out, it’s extremely complex and difficult. He constantly fights to learn as much as he can and take advantage of the strange situation he’s found himself in.
Interests… magic and the Fillory books, mostly. Quentin has always been very intelligent, but struggles with socializing.
Relationship Status… single.
Challenge… succeeding at Brakebills, or so he thinks. Magic is dangerous, though, and there may be bigger things looming in his future than just passing the next exam or finding out what his Discipline (magical specialty) is.
Personality… intelligent, driven, and melancholic. Quentin is an introverted person, but fiercely driven to grasp the power that’s been handed to him. He’s always suspected there was something different about him, and now he has the chance to prove it. But his low self-esteem and depression sometimes hold him back.
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Growing up, Quentin Coldwater was obsessed with the children's book series Fillory and Further: a Narnia-like adventure about travel to a magical land. And now Quintin is fulfilling his dream of studying magic as a secret school called Brakebills. Magic is dangerous, though, and there may be bigger things looming in his future than just passing the next exam.
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Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he's secretly fascinated with a series of children's fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined.
