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The Golden Enclaves

Naomi Novik (2022)

SubgenreScience Fantasy
Age groupYA 12-17
Content ratingPG-13
Pages417 (Chunky (400-600))
SeriesThe Scholomance #3
Setting
CSM age14

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentMild
LanguageMild

Synopsis

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate. FINALIST FOR THE HUGO AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Paste, Publishers Weekly 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.

Tags

Dark AcademiaUrban FantasyComing of AgeMagic School

Is The Golden Enclaves appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 14 and up.

Fantasy finale with magical combat, world-threatening conflict, and moral complexity around violence and destiny. Some romantic elements but minimal content; main concerns are moderate fantasy violence and war themes.

What to know going in

This book has moderate violence, mild sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death, violence, and war (see the full list above).

Who'll love this

Fans of magic school stories will love this epic conclusion where El must prevent an all-out wizard war and return to the deadly school she just escaped.