Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

98 reviews

mhyland's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

sinkitten's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Body horror

cnannery19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Toxic friendship, Violence, Gaslighting, Murder, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Death, Kidnapping, and Toxic relationship

watsontheslytherin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Beautiful prose

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Suicide attempt, and Torture

Minor: Blood, Alcohol, Chronic illness, and Drug use

praaliine's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense 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

4.0

i hate them. i hate all the characters, they vex me so much. what annoys me even more is that i can’t stop thinking about them?? all i know is, i need to know more.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Death, and Toxic relationship

monstrouscosmos's review

I really enjoyed the world building, and the exploration of each character as individuals as well as their group dynamics. the perspective taking of the chapters was also interesting, and the narrators all added nuance to their performances in ways I appreciated (especially during internal monologues). unfortunately Part 6 definitely got too trigger heavy for me, and I found the expositions started to get both much longer and much less believable. not the book for me, unfortunately! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Ableism, Infidelity, Bullying, Incest, Rape, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Child abuse, Classism, Physical abuse, Sexism, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Murder, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Violence

I put all the triggers I remembered in "moderate", though some would definitely be better described as "minor" or "graphic".

rozex's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

For people who like pondering philosophical and theoretical ideas, then this is a good book for you. It was interesting, but I didn't expect it in a fiction book. Didn't get exciting until after 320 pages. The idea of an Alexandrian Library modern society had so much promise. At the end, I was simply reading just to finish the book, not out of enjoyment or interest. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

alyxbeau's review against another edition

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

5.0

Oh I loved this very quickly. It's much more complex than books I've read recently which I thoroughly appreciate! I think all the characters had distinctly unique narration and you could tell who it was who was speaking quickly and clearly. 

The subject matter of time and space has always been fascinating to me, and this book while complex, is still approachable. It doesn't make you feel bad for not inherently understanding what these brilliant medians are talking about. In fact, it does not particularly need to make sense in your own brain in order to understand how amazing what they are studying and accomplishing is. 


I'm super excited to read the future books and find out what happens! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Murder and Toxic friendship

Minor: Terminal illness

lydsgrace99's review against another edition

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

If this book had been around in 2014, it would've had a CHOKEHOLD on Tumblr. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Classism, and Infidelity

Minor: Sexual assault, Incest, and Pedophilia

amybfox1's review against another edition

challenging 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? It's complicated

3.5

So

In theory I enjoyed this, the world building, the magic system the characters…

BUT ITS SO LONG 😂😂

This is a type of book that is so different that anything I’ve read before. I think the character switching was a double edged sword? I loved how it broke it up but it also meant that I didn’t know where I was at any given point and I had to keep double checking who the narrator was at that point. 

HAVING SAID ALL THAT 

I really did enjoy it and im looking forward to reading more of this universe

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Chronic illness