The Golden Enclaves

As an adult, I find there are fewer and fewer books that allow me to access the sheer amazement I felt as a kid toward books (and why I devoted over a dozen years to them as an adult). The Scholomance series re-immersed me in this feeling as I surrendered to the world, narrative, and characters of the Scholomance.

I stayed up all night, the plot tugging me on, leaving me ambivalent about anything outside the world of the book. I laughed with delight and pure, writerly awe at how skillfully Novak wove every thread of the plot together.

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Capping off her tremendous Scholomance series, Naomi Novik departs from the winning formula of the first two volumes—which each follow a year in the life of teenage students at a deadly school for magic—and expands the universe into something much, much bigger.

Not only is this book a cracking read, but Novik throws in a curveball that will make you rethink everything you believe from the first two books. It’s one of the most gripping series finales I’ve ever read, at turns funny and drama-laden but confident in its storytelling throughout.

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The Golden Enclaves concludes a trilogy about a smart, snarky teenage witch attending a very dark, magical school.

El was labeled at a very young age by a prophecy as a destroyer of all things. No matter how she tries to be a regular girl, the school where she lives will only give her the darkest, most lethal spells to work on. Despite her understandable anger, El finds a friend group who are determined to save themselves and their classmates from the deadly ritual of Graduation. 

In this conclusion, all but one of them escaped. El is ready to move… show more.