The Golden Enclaves
The triumphant conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling dark academia fantasy trilogy
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4.5 • 228 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.
The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out - not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way.
But that impossible dream has somehow come true for El and her classmates. And what's more, she didn't even have to become the monstrous dark witch she's prophesised to become to make it happen. Instead of killing enclavers, she saved them, and now the world is safe for all wizards. Peace and harmony have enveloped all the enclaves of the world.
Just kidding.
Instead, someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in El's stead, and everyone she saved is at risk again with a full-scale enclave war on the horizon. And so, the first thing El needs to do after miraculously escaping the Scholomance, is to turn straight around and find a way back in.
A Deadly Education, Sunday Times bestseller - October 2020
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The action-packed conclusion to Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy is everything we’d hoped for and more. Determined to change the horrifying fate that’s been prophesied for her, outcast teen sorceress El and her former classmates embark on a harrowing winner-takes-all journey. As her young heroes explore the magical world, confront terrifying obstacles and navigate touchy interpersonal relationships, Novik gives us a thrilling fantasy that poetically explores themes of love, loss, duty, family and destiny. We loved how Novik develops all of the magical communities that her valiant band of graduates encounter. We wholeheartedly recommend starting with the first book in the trilogy, A Deadly Education, to get the most out of this exhilarating read.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Novik dazzles in her brilliant and compulsively readable final Scholomance fantasy, which picks up immediately after the events of The Last Graduate. Galadriel "El" Higgins has successfully trapped 92% of all wizard-hunting monsters, or mals, in the magical boarding school Scholomance, now her alma mater, and led her fellow students to safety—all except for her enemy turned true love, Orion Lake. El's desperate attempts to save Orion from a fate worse than death in the belly of the same "maw-mouth" monster that ate her father can't succeed unless she gets power from the enclaves, groups of privileged wizards living in protective pocket universes. However, several enclaves have mysteriously vanished into the void, the powerful London enclave is under attack, and the New York and Shanghai enclaves are on the brink of war. To save Orion, El and her classmates must first save the world they have struggled so hard to rejoin and a future threatened by dangers built into the foundations of the enclaves themselves. This exquisitely well-crafted work engages deeply with genre classics like the Lord of the Rings and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas while offering up its own detailed and original world full of clever parallels and a fascinating magical catch-22. Novik beautifully closes out El's and Orion's character arcs, paying off on groundwork laid in previous installments, and her focus on hope, resilience, and collective action makes this finale as moving as it is satisfying. This is a knockout.
Customer Reviews
Best series ever
Best series ever
So immersive I didn’t want it to end
Think I’ll just start reading the whole series over again. It’s a world that you live. I don’t want to say goodbye.
A Wonderful End to the Series
A genuinely lovely story, with incredible payoff for all the intricate worldbuilding woven throughout the series. The characters and relationships between them are so well written and interesting, and there’s something so clear-sighted in the way many of them interact. There aren’t villains so much as there are just people doing whatever they can to survive, doing what they think is right, and compromising over and over again because it’s easiest, and/or because they have no other way. The narrative understands them, and it understands the ways people continue making selfish choices, and it says “fine, but my protagonist does not have do this” over and over again. El is a wonderful protagonist, funny and dark and fascinatingly relatable, and it was a pleasure to watch her shape this world into a world build on kindness. A lovely read!