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The Golden Enclaves

Naomi Novik

4.14 AVERAGE

whatashisreading's review against another edition

5.0

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“Hunting maw-mouths isn’t fun.”
“It’ll be great,” he said, grinning up at me, refusing to yield. “We’ll go all over the world—”
“—to find the most horrible monsters and kill them?” I snapped. “Yes, a delightful holiday; lying on a beach, a trip to Paris, they really can’t compete—”
His smile was only widening as I went on, a shining in his face like golden light as he looked at me, the wanker, and I tried to keep going but I couldn’t help it; I leaned “over and took his face in my hands and kissed him, again and again, there in the Scholomance gym, with the birds going in swoops and the tiny butterflies poking among the wildflowers, and the school sent a soft cool fragrant breeze in our faces, full of the scent of wildflowers and peaches.
It was, actually, a bit nice.

I JUST LOVE THEM SO MUCH!!!!!

Songs:
Ever Since New York- Harry Styles
Compass- the Neighbourhood
Human- Rag n Bone Man

emilyz543's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

yuukitty's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aestheticcluttercore's review against another edition

4.5

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Really enjoyed the entire series, my main issue is that I don’t think Orion Lake was ever really a character (and I get that was purposeful in a way) so caring about him and his fate was a little difficult. Love literally everyone else in the book tho so can’t be too mad. 

msnoir85's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

framtidssarkasm's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

tabstraction's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

joyinaugust's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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this book had a much faster pace than the previous two, and so much more happened. something was always happening, to the point that the progression of events felt a bit rushed and there wasn't enough time to explore what was happening for the characters emotionally/psychologically. especially Orion when he went with them all to Beijing, even though it was absolutely not in the mindset to be going on international trips and fighting monsters. Orion's characterisation also became quite shaky in this book, the fact that he was technically a maw-mouth doesn't impede on this, but he doesn't really have a distinct personality. Which is something that El herself brings up constantly, however, this is never really addressed or resolved. The only thing that becomes added to make Orion a distinctive person and not just a mindless mal hunter is that he loves El, which feels a bit simplistic a character's entire personality, motivation, and desires. but mostly I still loved this book and I loved seeing everything FINALLY get resolved. 

the_thanatology_witch's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was a solid ending to the series. It was a good look at how we can choose to embrace our destiny after years of fighting against it and that how it looks to others isn’t necessarily the truth of the matter. 

El really grew on me in this book. Her raw grief and her acceptance of herself were written well. Overall a decent series. 

thekilljoyqueer's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny fast-paced