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A review by ktc8
The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake
5.0
this was better than the first honestly
'Olympus was empty. The gods were already here.'
'What else was intimacy if not the memorization of her thoughts, her dreams, her fears?' Being seen and known and the deep, intimate knowledge of someone else was so crucial to this, and like this is what dark academia its about. being fucked up in a library, surrounded by others who know you more than you know you, where you think everything is about you.
i really loved how this one focused so much on how they saw each other rather than who they are individually and how theyre all tied up in each other, really gets that dark academia vibe going of wtf these people are all really fucked up and kinda awful and hate each other but intrinsically connected and cant exist outside of each other now. good.
the addition of belen's character was really crucial bc literally the book being another year in an infinite knowledge library where they just study and write a thesis is subpar, to expand it to a kind of anti-spiderman theme of these insane godlike characters who have the ultimate power and decide to further their own interests rather than the betterment of the world or humanity, but to look and create another world rather than fix your own is so very godly and also so very human, in that you cannot avoid your own history and beliefs that you continue to repeat it and look backwards or sideways rather than forward. lets pretend that made sense, basically the book is good and these characters are Good.
also i love ambiguous love stories like theyre all in love with each other or are they. but the gideon nico smooch at the end was so cute. libby polyam question mark. collum tristan love spat? we love to see it.
'Olympus was empty. The gods were already here.'
'What else was intimacy if not the memorization of her thoughts, her dreams, her fears?' Being seen and known and the deep, intimate knowledge of someone else was so crucial to this, and like this is what dark academia its about. being fucked up in a library, surrounded by others who know you more than you know you, where you think everything is about you.
i really loved how this one focused so much on how they saw each other rather than who they are individually and how theyre all tied up in each other, really gets that dark academia vibe going of wtf these people are all really fucked up and kinda awful and hate each other but intrinsically connected and cant exist outside of each other now. good.
the addition of belen's character was really crucial bc literally the book being another year in an infinite knowledge library where they just study and write a thesis is subpar, to expand it to a kind of anti-spiderman theme of these insane godlike characters who have the ultimate power and decide to further their own interests rather than the betterment of the world or humanity, but to look and create another world rather than fix your own is so very godly and also so very human, in that you cannot avoid your own history and beliefs that you continue to repeat it and look backwards or sideways rather than forward. lets pretend that made sense, basically the book is good and these characters are Good.
also i love ambiguous love stories like theyre all in love with each other or are they. but the gideon nico smooch at the end was so cute. libby polyam question mark. collum tristan love spat? we love to see it.