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A review by kba76
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
Perhaps this was a case of too much time elapsing between reading books two and three, but I found this really quite hard work. Such a shame after my enjoyment of the opening books.
El needs to do something about their destruction of the Scholomance and the problem of Orion being stuck after his actions at the end of book two. It takes what feels like most of the book for her to work out what to do and to explain why she needs to do it.
The plot is fairly simple. El travels from place to place trying to work out how to create enclaves and get to the bottom of how to rescue Orion (whatever that looks like).
There were some interesting explanations of the process behind this, but the setting just seemed rather uninspiring. There was tension in terms of how much time she had to do this, and the revelation about Orion’s mother, but I really found myself feeling quite disengaged from the whole thing. This felt like a book I finished because I wanted to complete the series rather than because I was desperate to see how things were resolved.
El needs to do something about their destruction of the Scholomance and the problem of Orion being stuck after his actions at the end of book two. It takes what feels like most of the book for her to work out what to do and to explain why she needs to do it.
The plot is fairly simple. El travels from place to place trying to work out how to create enclaves and get to the bottom of how to rescue Orion (whatever that looks like).
There were some interesting explanations of the process behind this, but the setting just seemed rather uninspiring. There was tension in terms of how much time she had to do this, and the revelation about Orion’s mother, but I really found myself feeling quite disengaged from the whole thing. This felt like a book I finished because I wanted to complete the series rather than because I was desperate to see how things were resolved.