Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

100 reviews

everythingordinary's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship and Infidelity

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Death, and Alcohol

ekern1991's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Death, Violence, and Toxic friendship

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

whailey's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Chronic illness, and Gaslighting

Minor: Toxic friendship and Toxic relationship

clairew97's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Child death, Gaslighting, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Chronic illness

bthrds's review against another edition

challenging informative mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Suicide, Death, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

cardanrry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Gun violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Body horror and Toxic friendship

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

lilifane's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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

5.0

No one is more surprised than me how much I loved this. 
The magic is vague, which I was totally fine with. But the plot is also very vague, and I didn't care. And the characters are also vague most of the time. What they think, what their intentions are. And some of them are truly annoying. But I still loved all of them in the end, even the one's that I disliked?
I just really really enjoyed the character dynamics and their interactions. It was just a lot of fun. And it was enough to make me fly through the book. I couldn't put it down. The narrative structure, the dialogues, all the vague mysteries made the pacing work really well for me. 
I have to say that I read the e-book while listening to the audiobook, and I think the narrators are fantastic. I very much enjoyed listening to the different point of views, and it was easier to ignore some of the more pretentious lines and dialogues this way. 
I'm happy I don't need to wait for the sequel all too long now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Blood, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, and Grief

dnlrbchd's review against another edition

This expired before I got through the last hour or so and I didn't care.

All of the characters were unlikable. The premise was overly complicated and the set up felt incredibly slow as a result. I was more invested in getting through the book than finding out what happened. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Classism, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

cluckieduck's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

The hype lead me here, but all I can say is that I think this book was trying to hard to be something grand. A lot needs to be tightened up - it just kept going in circles, filled with redundancies rather than fleshing-out the characterization or world-building that was deeply needed. That being said, it was good enough that I'll continue with the series to see where it leads.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicide attempt, Violence, Bullying, Cursing, Murder, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, and Stalking

Minor: Sexual content, Chronic illness, Infidelity, and Sexual harassment