Lucas Stoffel

Klara and the Sun Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro has spent his career writing about people who don't fully understand their own lives — the butler in The Remains of the Day, the clones in Never Let Me Go — and with Klara and the Sun, he does it again with an artificial intelligence so gentle and so earnest that she becomes the most human character in the book.

The Magician King is a better book than The Magicians, and I say that as someone who already gave The Magicians five stars. What Grossman does here — structurally, emotionally, thematically — is one of the bravest things I've seen a fantasy writer attempt.