The Golden Enclaves

I really enjoyed this series! I loved A Deadly Education, and the second book, The Last Graduate.

The third and final book, The Golden Enclaves, was a perfect ending to this story.

Opening Line:

"The last thing Orion said to me, the absolute bastard, was El, I love you so much."

This part reminds me of all governments, society, and HOAs, to be honest:

"There's not much democracy in enclaves; they're run like a cross between a vicious international corporation and a village full of vexatious eccentrics. Most of the denizens don't care what the council are doing as long as everything keeps running smoothly from their own perspective, and the only people who get a significant vote anyway are the people who've earned a council seat, either by doing something dramatic or because they've cleverly arranged to be descended from a founding member."

This is just like the part of every movie where the hero tries to leave everyone else behind for their own safety, but it never works that way, really:

"I'm going in," I said. My voice echoed weirdly off the walls round me, unbalanced. "Stay here."

"And wait for Patience to come fleeing out ahead of you?" Liesel said caustically. "No. We are safer with you than alone."

Aadhya just said, "Let's go."

I didn't argue. 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.

I like this part about talking about feelings/repressing them. I think it's funny:

"After the letter turned up, she cornered me privately for a conversation about the future, and I let her, mostly because I was sure Mum would look at me disappointedly if we didn't talk about our feelings at all under the circumstances, although personally I felt I'd had far too many feelings lately and would have liked to repress a lot of them."