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The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake

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ashleyreads88's review against another edition

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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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hannahcstocks's review against another edition

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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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hello_lovely13's review against another edition

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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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sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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beegster16's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious sad 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

3.5

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nicoledelairs's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny 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? Yes

4.25

Absolutely loved it! I listened to the audiobook this time (read a physical copy of the first book) and the narrators did a phenomenal job.
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

Reyna telling Callum that she's a God, or Tristan asking Nico to kill him

).
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 :)

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anton13's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? No

4.75

Reason it wasn’t a 5 star read was bc it was a bit slow to me. Now that could’ve been my fault for not being fully in the book when reading a lot of the time but still it felt a bit slow. Nonetheless the story was amazing and the twists and turns had me shook. I don’t know how I’m supposed to survive till next year before I get to read the third book but I’ll have to manage. I love this world and the idea that there’s magic and secret societies with so much knowledge. I can’t wait to see how their journeys will continue. And also the end😱😱 no way! I wanna say this: FINALLY!! And: it made me so happy and so intrigued for the next book.

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macykey's review against another edition

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dark mysterious fast-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

I definitely do feel like I missed out on some things, like I was out of the loop or maybe I just didn’t get the subtle context clues that were provided. I also was hoping that we’d get Libby back sooner than we did, but I get why we didn’t. Can’t wait for the inevitable Tristan/Libby reunion! There were also some questions that arose in the first book that we didn’t get an answer to in the follow up. So I have to wait even longer to get answers to questions raised two books ago?That’s a little annoying. Overall, I couldn’t put this down. I really like this book and can’t wait for the next one.

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sophie1_xox's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging medium-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? N/A

3.0

Summary:
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).

Characters:
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.

It felt like it meant to be a gradual turn, however suddenly seemed to do a complete 180 at the last second which felt really jarring.

Parisa didn't really have any development in this book which was super disappointing.

Her character in the first one really caused me to challenge my views on female sexuality and how she is not a worse person for how she chooses to exert power over others, compared with the rest of the initiates.

Reina had negative development. She spent the entire book,

since the first initiation task, angry at Nico without ever talking to him and if there's one thing I hate more than an unnecessary pregnancy trope, it's miscommunication.

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

ending that he got with Gideon (about damn time!) although I don't know if there's supposed to be love towards Libby? Maybe that's the point and readers are supposed to be as confused as he is with regards to his feelings.

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.

Was the whole point just to watch Libby get back to her timeline? Gideon's plot was interesting and there's the whole thing where they're basically gods but not?

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

very incoherent with the ending of this one.

Honestly, this felt like a trip and I'm hoping the next one doesn't drop me off a cliff for a come-down.

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dododenise's review against another edition

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challenging inspiring mysterious 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

4.5

Oh my god?!?
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.

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