It permeates the pages and really tugs on your heartstrings as you witness her torment. Her grief at losing him to the Scholomance and the horrific maw-mouth that is Patience is all-consuming.

The Golden Enclaves begins right where The Last Graduateended, as El is thrown out of the graduation hall by none other than Orion Lake, arch-nemesis turned…something more. 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. 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.

Peace and harmony have enveloped all the enclaves of the world. Instead of killing enclavers, she saved them, and now the world is safe for all wizards. What’s more, she didn’t even have to become the monstrous dark witch she’s been prophesied to become to make it happen. 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.īut that impossible dream has somehow come true for El and her classmates.

The Golden Enclaves is a worthy conclusion to this fun trilogy which I will definitely be rereading. My experience of the Scholomance series has been generally positive and definitely improving with each new book.

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