Reviews - The Golden Enclaves

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The Golden Enclaves

Naomi Novik

4.14 AVERAGE

ktjnsn's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

feicai90's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

giselle_tbr's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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: Complicated

THIS COULD BE MY FAVORITE READ OF THE FUCKING YEAR.

pepsienby's review against another edition

3.0

surely just set the maws on fire or something come on

squishies's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

I wasn't sure how this trilogy was going to end, these books had me mostly guessing where it was likely to go (and most of the time I was wrong haha), so of course this last instalment would throw a one-two punch with an upper cut for good measure.

I literally gasped out loud "no fucking way, what!?" When El realised just who was bringing down the enclaves, how and why. It was already horrible finding out that enclaves were built on a sacrifice, let alone that the sacrifice turns into a bloody maw-mouth ... Like what the fuck!

Gods, it was even worse to find out poor bloody Orion is a wizard maw-mouth engineered by his mother who sacrificed an entire year of school kids to do it. Geeeeebus...

While I'm glad she didn't end up having to kill Orion and neatly turned all the maw-mouth parts of him to anchor the new school, I'm a bit confused - is he eternal now as he's literally the physical embodiment of the school? Will he age?

Anyway, poor Liu too. Ugh. So glad El got there in time.

I vaguely saw some reviews mentioning how often things were being repeated and yeah it happens quite a bit, more than the other instalments I think, but I kinda glossed over it because I really wanted to know how it was all going to end. I'm not sure of the intent, as I don't remember Novik being this repetitive in their other books
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leeloubean's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional 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

chrisscorkscrew's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is definitely the slowest book of the trilogy. It took forever to get going and there was loads of miserable character introspection to wade through. It got better as the book went along but quite a lot of that was racing around the globe looking for the plot. Ultimately, it had an exciting ending, but it was a long time getting there.