The Golden Enclaves: A Novel (The Scholomance Book 3)

“Maybe I'd known all along that they would come with me, and I’d only told myself that I'd stop them because it was horribly selfish to drag them along, and so I'd had to pretend I wasn't going to do it. I imagine it's always easier to do something monstrous if you can convince yourself you aren't going to, up to the last minute, until you do.”

This book is the true culmination in all of the themes and ideas explored in earlier books. Privilage and classims is explored even more in this book and the enclaves themselves are a metaphor for privilege with their having stores of mana that they can share with enclave residents and protect and care for their residents, just how it relates so well to talking about privilege of wealth and race. Especially when you learn how they are made it also makes the metaphor even deeper.

El in this book really struggles hard to do what is right and stand by her morales and values. She fights against her destiny. There are also themes of friendship and toxic family.

I only wish I could give it a hundred stars. Now I'll start again and read all three in a row.