Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake

16 reviews

kimzeyk's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

I should have re-read the first two books before starting this one - I had to go back to the last few chapters of book 2.  Be sure you’re clear on who’s dead and who’s alive, and do read the dramatis personae at the beginning.  

The bulk of the “story” happens inside the characters’ heads - as others have said, there’s very little plot.   But I do love her writing; this is a series I could see picking up and re-reading all in a row at some point, and maybe I’d enjoy it more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Sexual content, and Mental illness

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Gore

celery's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Chronic illness, Body horror, Cursing, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dementia, Ableism, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Racism, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Death of parent, Addiction, Classism, Gore, Infertility, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Stalking, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, War, Drug use, Grief, Misogyny, Suicide, Terminal illness, Confinement, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, and Violence

ktkeps's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Toxic friendship, Grief, Police brutality, Violence, Misogyny, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Death, and Sexual content

s_l's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

1.5

This book is fantastically bad, but some parts closer to the end did read sort of fine, like they were actually planned in advance unlike the rest of this bullshit, so it's not completely one star
Other than that I can't believe how bad it was even considering my low expectations from the previous two
Also, for fuck's sake, it doesn't need this many complicated words, some of the oh so ✨✨✨cool✨✨✨ and ✨✨✨smart✨✨✨ sentences that were made exclusively for fancy quotes don't even make sense and only make the text absolutely unnecessarily obscure 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Classism, Death, Grief, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Mass/school shootings

errie's review

dark emotional

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

gondorgirl's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

Excuse me while I cry for the next hundred years. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Blood, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Grief, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Murder, Stalking, Violence, Bullying, Cancer, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexism, and Toxic relationship