Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

96 reviews

ok7a's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, and Death of parent

kaylamoran's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

From the moment I heard that a self published book had exploded and was going to be traditionally published, I knew I had to read it.  I saw so many good reviews that it became a 5 star prediction for me.  I do think my crazy expectations did it no favours, but I loved it nonetheless.  A few things about the writing style or pacing irked me at times, but the story and the characters kept me going.  Multi POV is one of my absolute favourite fantasy tropes, so I loved that part of it as well.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Alcohol, Confinement, Kidnapping, Blood, and Death of parent

thaliareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Really interesting concept and a diverse cast of characters. I do sort of wish I had read it as a physical or e-book the first time instead of listening to the audiobook. It was a bit tough for me to separate the characters at first since the way I listen to audiobooks while I'm doing other things I sometimes missed when a switch in character was announced. However, this is my personal experience and overall I really enjoyed the narration of this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gun violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Terminal illness, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Death, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol

The main plot does involve the six initiates protecting the society which does involve fairly detailed fighting with enemies who try to break in

this extends to torturing and killing some of those who made it through the wards.

. Minor spoiler

one of the initiates had a sibling who died from an incurable terminal illness.

Large spoilers

One of the characters had to watch his mom die in a mass shooting and relive that day over and over again. Additionally, the initiates realize that while there are six of them - they won't have to pick one of them to leave - they have to pick one of them to kill. There is some graphic sexual content in multiple instances. Some is a M/F pairing, the other instance is a M/F/F threesome.

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Child death, and Death of parent

frankieclc's review against another edition

3.5

i feel like this would have been a 5 if it didn’t feel like the author was using a thesaurus every 5 minutes like sometimes you can just say it as it is babe 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Minor: Suicide

pvbobrien's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, Death, Kidnapping, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Sexual violence

wrestleacademic's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gun violence

chilivanilli28's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Murder, Death of parent, and Death

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Suicide

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Violence, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol and Death of parent

lynsstrange's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Overall really enjoyed! It took me a while to get through. The language was trying to be edgy and philosophical, and at some points, it works quite well, and in others it comes off just as sorta clunky. (Read: “Did they hurt you?” He asked. She dragged her gaze up, sickened. “Who?” “Everyone.” “Yes.”) Like a lot of the dialogue is easy to picture in a book, but then you have to pause and remember “why the hell would anyone actually ever say that in real life??” 💀 However, I love the characters and how morally gray and complex they are. My favorites are Tristan and Libby, but I relate to Reina the most lmao. Basically all the characters sleep with each other at some point, so this leads to some bizarre dynamics and anyone can be shipped with anyone. But, I’m a sucker for academic rivals, so I’m going to have to go with Libby and Nico as my favorite. The plot twist was really interesting, and I was not at all expecting

Ezra’s crazy backstory with Atlas! I thought he’d probably end up being a villainous figure or something. But like, damn, I wasn’t expecting Atlas to be the overarching antagonist. Kinda interesting. I wonder just how old that makes Ezra though oop.

Overall really enjoyed this, though. Waiting excitedly for the atlas paradox!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexual content and Death of parent