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A review by wolfmouse
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
2.0
DNF at 31%.
Wow, what a disappointment. The first few chapters had me really excited about this book. Five hours into the audiobook, I was exhausted by it and had no interest in trudging onward to see if things got better.
This book is all telling, no showing, with zero reprieve in the most literal sense. It’s seemingly pure dialogue, if you can call it that. Meaningless banter between characters that barely progresses the plot. Honestly, what plot? A third into the book and I have no real sense of what the Alexandrian Society is, what any of the characters hope to accomplish, or a grounded, definable setting. They might as well be endlessly bickering from within a void.
Also, murder is okay? A quarter of the way through the archives are invaded and Nico and Reina single-handedly dispatch and kill a bunch of intruders, and it’s…not a big deal? Or really talked about at all? Is this a universe where twenty-two-year-olds encounter violence and death to the extent that such carnage warrants no reaction? Tristan is the only one who seems remotely out of sorts in this situation and even that was like, eh.
Ugh. Whatever. This was a waste of time, but I can at least strike this from my queue forevermore.
Wow, what a disappointment. The first few chapters had me really excited about this book. Five hours into the audiobook, I was exhausted by it and had no interest in trudging onward to see if things got better.
This book is all telling, no showing, with zero reprieve in the most literal sense. It’s seemingly pure dialogue, if you can call it that. Meaningless banter between characters that barely progresses the plot. Honestly, what plot? A third into the book and I have no real sense of what the Alexandrian Society is, what any of the characters hope to accomplish, or a grounded, definable setting. They might as well be endlessly bickering from within a void.
Also, murder is okay? A quarter of the way through the archives are invaded and Nico and Reina single-handedly dispatch and kill a bunch of intruders, and it’s…not a big deal? Or really talked about at all? Is this a universe where twenty-two-year-olds encounter violence and death to the extent that such carnage warrants no reaction? Tristan is the only one who seems remotely out of sorts in this situation and even that was like, eh.
Ugh. Whatever. This was a waste of time, but I can at least strike this from my queue forevermore.