The Golden Enclaves

How it reads

The Golden Enclaves is fantasy (contemporary fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is hopeful. Whatever it puts its people through, it believes things can get better. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in an invented world, in the present day, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are coming of age and identity. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. The ending resolves happily. At 407 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.