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ashleyreads88's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Graphic: Alcoholism, Kidnapping, and Violence
Moderate: Murder, Death, and Sexual content
hannahcstocks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- 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
Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Confinement, Cursing, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Classism, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Colonisation, and Panic attacks/disorders
hello_lovely13's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Kidnapping, Alcoholism, and Violence
Moderate: Sexual content, Death, and Murder
Minor: Death of parent
sophiesmallhands's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Violence, Sexism, Misogyny, and Kidnapping
Minor: Death of parent, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Death
beegster16's review against another edition
- 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
3.5
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Classism, Toxic friendship, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Xenophobia
Minor: Sexual content, Chronic illness, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicidal thoughts
nicoledelairs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Blake does a good job balancing the different POVs, and each character has a distinct voice that stands out. These characters just bounce off each other so well! Every combination of partnerships and collaboration brings an interesting new vibe to the story and gives the reader new insights into the charaters' minds.
There were definitely a few aspects that I found really funny (like
There are some amazing things that are done with the magic system and I think it might be one of my favourite magic systems of any media.
The short story afterward is a fun little extra too :)
Moderate: Death
Minor: Alcohol and Sexual content
anton13's review against another edition
- 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? No
4.75
Graphic: Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Cursing, Addiction, Confinement, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Child death
macykey's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Cursing and Violence
Minor: Sexual content
sophie1_xox's review against another edition
- 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? N/A
3.0
This book truly gave me mixed feelings. I absolutely adored the Atlas Six - the characters that you love to hate, the clever plot, the uniqueness of the setting. Dark academia vibes all the way! Just, something about this one didn't hit. It may be that I was reading it whilst starting full time work and therefore couldn't sink into it (I read half of the Atlas Six in one day whereas this took me 18 days). It may also be that I had not reread the Atlas Six beforehand and therefore was thrown off by essentially catching myself up throughout the first half. I don't know. At the minute, it's sitting at 3 stars for me. When the final book comes out, The Atlas Complex, comes out early 2024, I will do a reread and see if my review improves (it's unlikely to hit 5 stars though).
Where to even start with the characters. I guess we should tackle them each one by one.
First, Libby. She is the one that I most related to in the Atlas Six and I feel like her character development was severely stunted in this one.
Parisa didn't really have any development in this book which was super disappointing.
Reina had negative development. She spent the entire book,
Callum I really enjoyed in this book. The events of the first one really seemed to catch up with him and I love his self-awareness and witty sarcasm. He was probably one of the only things that kept me reading this book.
Nico was fine. Pretty confusing but his relationship with Tristan was fun and I love the
Lastly is Tristan and I enjoyed his character arc. Learning more about his specialty, as well as touching on some family issues and his feelings towards the other initiates was really fascinating to watch.
Atlas. WTF man. I don't even know how to feel about him.
Dalton was interesting but I have to say, I was super confused about everything that happened to him. Hopefully the next one gives some clarity on that.
Plot:
So I'm just generally confused as to what the plot is supposed to be. It feels like not much happened in 400 pages.
I was super confused and honestly felt like I was reading just for vibes.
Overall:
This book was fine. I'm going to read the next one to see if it clears up any confusion. The character development in some places was great and in others it felt like it stagnated or reversed. The plot was very similar to the characters in that the last book set up Atlas as a bad guy but that is
Graphic: Alcoholism and Violence
Moderate: Sexual content
dododenise's review against another edition
- 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
I enjoyed reading the first book more but holy shit I still loved this one so much.
I mostly was less convinced by all the philosophising this time. That was the part that really got me into the first book. But now I got into the character dynamics and the chaos of it all. I also actually like some of the characters now and considering they're all designed to be assholes that's an accomplishment. And I was rewarded in my favourite shipping!! I didn't dare to hope for it because so many characters are set up to potentially have some romantic and/or sexual relationship.
Honestly, their relationship dynamics were all over the place and I was here for it.
Graphic: Alcohol, Confinement, Alcoholism, and Cursing
Moderate: Racism, Misogyny, Violence, and Kidnapping
Minor: Sexual content, Colonisation, and Death