Some questions remain to be answered in the trilogy’s last volume.

“Sardonic students, gruesome monsters, growing friendships, and a touch of romance create a highly readable story. Its sheer viciousness, its grim humor, and its complicated interpersonal politics are an immediate draw.” - Polygon

“Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series, about kids at a preposterously deadly magical school, stands out in a ridiculously crowded field. As a warning, it ends on another killer cliffhanger.” -BuzzFeed “Truly one of the best fantasy series out there right now, and it’s not close.” - Culturess As she did with, Novik changes the game again with the very last line.” - Locus In the abstract, this is a story about relying on others-but in the concrete, it is about how to survive when the odds are against you. The magic of the Scholomance trilogy continues in The Golden Enclaves With keen insight and mordant humor, Novik reminds us that sometimes it is not enough to rewrite the rules-sometimes, you need to toss out the entire rulebook. I’m going to get myself and my friends out of this hideous place for good-even if it’s the last thing I do. The course of wisdom, surely.īut I’m not giving in-not to the mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholomance. That would certainly let me sail straight out of here. Unless, of course, I finally accept my foretold destiny of dark sorcery and destruction. And even if I somehow make it through the endless waves of maleficaria that it keeps throwing at me in between grueling homework assignments, I haven’t any idea how my allies and I are going to make it through the graduation hall alive. Our beloved school does its best to devour all its students-but now that I’ve reached my senior year and have actually won myself a handful of allies, it’s suddenly developed a very particular craving for me. I suppose you could even argue that it’s true-only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter’s rather scant. That’s the official motto of the Scholomance.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Polygon, Thrillist, She Reads.

“The climactic graduation-day battle will bring cheers, tears, and gasps as the second of the Scholomance trilogy closes with a breathtaking cliff-hanger.”- Booklist (starred review)

The specter of graduation looms large as Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling trilogy continues in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education.

The golden enclaves paperback