Janine: That would have been so depressing, I can only breathe a sigh of relief. It just felt like signs in the big showdown scene were pointing that way – I mean, they obviously were, on the surface, but even beneath the surface there was this undercurrent of doom and dread that made me think that El killing Orion would be a fitting ending. What about you, were you afraid of a dark ending? So I knew Orion would survive, but nevertheless, when Li was telling El she had to kill him and El was so torn up, I was terrified! Novik did such a good job of scaring me that I had to remind myself about the last page to reassure myself. It stressed me out so much I peeked at the last page. When Gwen told El she sensed this awful hunger in Orion I started worrying about that. Janine: I read a lot of theories last year, including one that Orion was a maleficer. When he’s in jeopardy much later in the book, did you feel like there might indeed be a dark ending where he didn’t survive? Jennie: It seemed pretty obvious that Orion was not going to actually be dead the first time, at the beginning of the book. In our second post on The Golden Enclaves (you can find the spoiler free part one here), book three in Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy, we discuss spoilers from start to finish, so if you’re spoiler-wary, avoid this discussion or come back after you’ve read the book (if you’re not, please join us in this comment thread we plan to make it chock full of spoilers too).
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