PLUM!! She's so great. She's in a story role that often doesn't work for me (new character introduced late in a series who becomes BFFs with the core group) but I'm team Plum all the way. :D

I keep thinking about how the trilogy in general reads like Lev Grossman falling back in love with the things he loved as a kid, and becoming kinder to his self-insert as well. I think one of the reasons why this book is my favorite of the three - well, okay, there are many reasons, but watching Quentin mature into a mentor/teacher role is so great, especially combined with his gentle bafflement that this is his life now. (And, I mean, I also love everyone else, but I did not expect to love Quentin this hard in the end.)