The Golden Enclaves - Mille feuilles

eBook, 411 pages

English language

Published Sept. 27, 2022 by Del Rey.

ASIN:: B09MVM8R7T

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 it’s all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls.

And now the impossible dream has come true. I’m out, we’re all out—and I didn’t even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. So much for my great-grandmother’s prophecy of doom and destruction. I didn’t kill enclavers, I saved them. Me and Orion and our allies. Our graduation plan worked to perfection: We saved everyone and made the world safe for all wizards and brought peace and harmony to all the enclaves everywhere.

Ha, only joking! Actually, it’s gone …

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 it’s all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls.

And now the impossible dream has come true. I’m out, we’re all out—and I didn’t even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. So much for my great-grandmother’s prophecy of doom and destruction. I didn’t kill enclavers, I saved them. Me and Orion and our allies. Our graduation plan worked to perfection: We saved everyone and made the world safe for all wizards and brought peace and harmony to all the enclaves everywhere.

Ha, only joking! Actually, it’s gone all wrong. Someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in my stead, and probably everyone we saved is about to get killed in the brewing enclave war. And the first thing I’ve got to do now, having miraculously gotten out of the Scholomance, is turn straight around and find a way back in.

4 editions

sifuCJC reviewed The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #3)

Frustrating emotions but excellent plot resolution

4 stars

Realize that I was there. I was completely invested from the first two books. Yet somehow, I still can't figure how, I was alienated from El, the main character, right in the beginning of this book. I couldn't understand her choices and I didn't get what she was feeling. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to connect with her as the story proceeded.

That said, I finished it because the plot was wonderful. It brought together very complex magic and lore to a cohesive end. Yet, I felt like I'd already lost a friend. Very frustrating.

Realize that I was there. I was completely invested from the first two books. Yet somehow, I still can't figure how, I was alienated from El, the main character, right in the beginning of this book. I couldn't understand her choices and I didn't get what she was feeling. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to connect with her as the story proceeded.

That said, I finished it because the plot was wonderful. It brought together very complex magic and lore to a cohesive end. Yet, I felt like I'd already lost a friend. Very frustrating.