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A review by vicktorea
The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-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
4.0
novacaine 4 lyfe
So this took me a while to get through, purposefully I might add. I wanted to make sure I was really paying attention to absorb and grasp all the details.
I enjoyed book one much more and this suffered a bit from middle-book syndrome. I still enjoyed it but it was definitely the book that was building up from where book one ended while also building up to the next book.
I loved seeing different pairs of the six interact. The extremely chaotic duo that was nico & tristan; the ever-emo, desperate for some love & attention duo that was callum and reina, and the surprising sweet interactions between nico & parisa and gideon & parisa.
I liked libby a lot more in this book - loved seeing her come into her villain era! I don’t ship her with anyone and actually just enjoy her on her own as character taking a bit of a dark turn (I can’t believe I’m saying it either bc I couldn’t stand her in book one but it’s clear that Olivie Blake wrote her intentionally in that way). We also see different sides to a lot of the characters as we see them interact more with one another, especially callum and reina! Tristan is still just as pathetically adorable as ever (& I neeeeed novacaine to happen in book 3 - plsss Ms. Blake, give me something tangible!!), nico still charming and gideon his right-hand man !
The last few parts of the end, particularly the unravelling of that one character, were fun to read and have me happily anticipating the next book - to say it’ll be interesting to see how things come to an eventual close would be an understatement.
nicogideon 5ever!
So this took me a while to get through, purposefully I might add. I wanted to make sure I was really paying attention to absorb and grasp all the details.
I enjoyed book one much more and this suffered a bit from middle-book syndrome. I still enjoyed it but it was definitely the book that was building up from where book one ended while also building up to the next book.
I loved seeing different pairs of the six interact. The extremely chaotic duo that was nico & tristan; the ever-emo, desperate for some love & attention duo that was callum and reina, and the surprising sweet interactions between nico & parisa and gideon & parisa.
I liked libby a lot more in this book - loved seeing her come into her villain era! I don’t ship her with anyone and actually just enjoy her on her own as character taking a bit of a dark turn (I can’t believe I’m saying it either bc I couldn’t stand her in book one but it’s clear that Olivie Blake wrote her intentionally in that way). We also see different sides to a lot of the characters as we see them interact more with one another, especially callum and reina! Tristan is still just as pathetically adorable as ever (& I neeeeed novacaine to happen in book 3 - plsss Ms. Blake, give me something tangible!!), nico still charming and gideon his right-hand man !
The last few parts of the end, particularly the unravelling of that one character, were fun to read and have me happily anticipating the next book - to say it’ll be interesting to see how things come to an eventual close would be an understatement.
nicogideon 5ever!