I think you’ll like it.
Yep, I’m the culprit! Tremaine is made of 100% awesomeness molecules. 
I’ll add the heavier stuff to the list, but it’s not for me right now. No abuse or assault themes will be good for me at this time.
Seems like you all are pretty much nailing my taste, though.
Have you ever read Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin? It’s a modern retelling of the old Scottish ballad of Tam Lin. Fantasy, but mostly it’s about characters and people talking about literature. 
I don’t remember specifically whether that’s an issue in The Magicians, but --spoiler/trigger–it’s a giant issue in the sequel, The Magician King.
Seanan MacGuire’s October Daye books. Her name is only one of her minor problems
Fourteen years before the series starts the eponymous heroine (a changeling) has her life fairly well sorted. She’s married to a human man and they have a daughter. She’s working as a PI. Then she follows the wrong suspect and spends the next fourteen years as a koi carp. She can’t explain to her family where she’s been and she feels she’s let her friends in faerie down… October has been working a dead end job and avoiding everybody until something happens that drags her right back in.
Ten or possibly eleven books so far and they fit right into my category of light but not stupid. There is an interesting over arc of plot, some not stupid romance and a lot of good humour.
A koi fish. Yowsa. That sounds strangely intriguing.
Bookwise, I quite liked the *Dragonriders of Pern *books in my youth. (Don’t know how I’d find them if I tried to re-read them now.)
As I recall, they feature very strong female characters occasionally getting hot and heavy with hunky, roguish men in a fantasy/soft sci-fi world. Easy reading.
These days my favourite escape is Steven Universe. Always makes me feel good.
So many warm fuzzy feelings. (Sadly, no hunky men.)
I second The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown.
Good, upbeat, escapist fantasy.
I hope your staycation does you good.
The Magicians’ trilogy, like many of Grossman’s novels, is all about people’s dreams remaining unfulfilled (though the main character gets a happy ending). Just be aware of that if you want to go there.
The very famous Jack Reacher novel series has loads of escapism, violence, and life-or-death stuff. The protagonist is male, to be sure; the woman will be the cop/FBI agent/soldier he happens to team up with.