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The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake

70 reviews

ashleyreads88's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

The Atlas Paradox picks up where The Atlas Six left off with

Nico, Tristan, Callum, Parisa, Reina, and Nico's friend Gideo trying to find out where Libby is.

. There were so many twists in this book that I didn't see coming and I couldn't believe the ending.  I loved this book and I'm excited to see where the story goes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Death, and Sexual content

hannahcstocks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

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

alicelalicon's review against another edition

mysterious slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Sexism, and Alcoholism

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Alcoholism, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent

vimes_48's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.5

This book should be the opening couple of chapters in the next book.
The Atlas Six opens - as so many trilogies do - with a compelling concept and a competent setup. Stuff happens, plot develops at a reasonable clip and we get a cliffhanger.

However, after that inevitable cliffhanger, we are left with this - hundreds of pages of… nothing. Our heroes do… nothing. For a year. We get to sit through a year’s worth of tangentially-related conversations between characters who have all fallen out for reasons that are not really explained and then the whole thing is wrapped up in the last couple of chapters. Cliffhanger resolved, the initiates submit their year of research - which is barely mentioned and we have no idea what conclusions they’ve drawn. Hopefully none of this research is leaned on as a deus ex in the third act. That would be poor form indeed.

This is all undoubtedly sold as “character development”, but I don’t really feel like I’m any better connected with the motivations or backgrounds of the characters than I was after book 1. I strongly suspect you could skip this book entirely, read book 3 and fill in the gaps.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Kidnapping

risaleel's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Kidnapping, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Alcoholism

aseel_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

On a technical level, this book should probably get a 3 something rating (because there was no real plot and the writing was so overly long and complicated and should have been edited) but I really liked the characters (except for Reina tbh) and connected with a lot of the gut wrenching sentences delivered by people like Callum, so it gets a 4 instead 
 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Gun violence, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Murder, and Sexual harassment

carefulfearanddeaddevotion's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

OMG!! This series shot to the top of my favorite book series ever, it's only second to TRC. Love love love the writing, love love love the characters. I say this with nothing but love, I'm not sure there really is a plot here lol. But, as we know, I am a characters over plot ass bitch and I didn't even realize that I'm not sure anything much happened until I started writing this review.

I loooooved Belen (and her and Libby <3), so I  am a little disappointed she (Olivie Blake) killed her. She was just felt like a plot device and a waste of a good character.

Also, I know I said I love the characters, but I do not like Reina. Or at least, I feel like we didn't spend as much time with her, her motivations, her feelings, as we did for the other characters. And then when started spending more time with her, I did not really like what I saw. I guess really my only criticism of the series is that she doesn't feel as 3(4)D as the other characters. I don't even think she's 2D. Even when she started her whole "I'm a god" thing, I was like "oh alright, i guess...when is the POV gonna switch?" She just feels very bland, especially compared to the others. Unhappy about how the thing with her and Nico went? Like it was just so frustrating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Gun violence, Death, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexism, Stalking, and Terminal illness

lucymt92's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

• 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

2.75

This was a difficult listen. It was very slow and tedious at times. Way too long winded and I don't really know what was going on most of the time. The last 3-4hrs of the audiobook are the only reason it's not a 2* review for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Alcoholism

sylvestra's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense 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

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Kidnapping

Minor: Death and Murder