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emberysing 's review for:
The Atlas Complex
by Olivie Blake
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
the ending is not satisfying. it’s not even cathartic. but it is fitting, like it was always the logical outcome. it’s poetic.
it’s not satisfying, and i don’t think it’s meant to be. this is not a story that is meant to make you feel good, it’s a warning tale.
in the world where everything terrible eventually worked out to a good ending requires a better world, better people than those protagonists that actually exist in that story. the point is, that people are messy, capable of doing bad things. and because there is no god, no deus ex machina to rescue them from the effects of our own wrongdoings, the price of their actions will always be felt.
even if the resulting deaths seem pointless, it would do the entire book a disservice to have them resurrected as if the characters actions had never mattered at all.
power always comes with a price. to love is to lose, if not now, then eventually. this is just how life is.
so what then do you do? faced with the ugly truth of reality, what can you do but make the choice to keep living, even when it hurts? maybe there is no cosmic absolution, maybe the only salvation we can ever receive is the forgiveness we give ourselves, for all that we have done, and all that we failed to do.
tldr: it gets gayer and more existential
it’s not satisfying, and i don’t think it’s meant to be. this is not a story that is meant to make you feel good, it’s a warning tale.
in the world where everything terrible eventually worked out to a good ending requires a better world, better people than those protagonists that actually exist in that story. the point is, that people are messy, capable of doing bad things. and because there is no god, no deus ex machina to rescue them from the effects of our own wrongdoings, the price of their actions will always be felt.
even if the resulting deaths seem pointless, it would do the entire book a disservice to have them resurrected as if the characters actions had never mattered at all.
power always comes with a price. to love is to lose, if not now, then eventually. this is just how life is.
so what then do you do? faced with the ugly truth of reality, what can you do but make the choice to keep living, even when it hurts? maybe there is no cosmic absolution, maybe the only salvation we can ever receive is the forgiveness we give ourselves, for all that we have done, and all that we failed to do.
tldr: it gets gayer and more existential