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A review by divineauthor
The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake
adventurous
emotional
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
2.0
“Power did nothing to soften a grave. It also did nothing to keep a promise.” —Sef Hassan, page 409
so i’ll be so real: i was struck by such intense despair of the Not Knowing What Will Happen that, on the morning of release day, i opened up the audiobook to find out exactly where everyone ends up. i listened to the last pages before even glimpsing at the first word, and it did ruin things for me. even without context i knew it was bad.
outside of you know who kicking the bucket, no writing can be good enough to justify the way this book is structured. there’s an art to leaving the reader in suspense about something by cutting from a tense scene and then there’s just . . . ripping the tension away to something unnecessary and honestly boring. i excuse blake’s tendency to overwrite and i can do it again, but it’s just so odd to me to insert these povs at the times they’re there. anyway. yeah. like do i understand how blake got to this point and why she wrote this book and the series the way she did? yes. it’s unfathomable to me, but i get it. do i like it though? now that’s a different story.
anyway. blake stuffers from stiefvaterisms in the way that her characters / character dynamics / prose are so insane, but the plots leave much to be desired. and i stand by this. wholeheartedly.
so i’ll be so real: i was struck by such intense despair of the Not Knowing What Will Happen that, on the morning of release day, i opened up the audiobook to find out exactly where everyone ends up. i listened to the last pages before even glimpsing at the first word, and it did ruin things for me. even without context i knew it was bad.
outside of you know who kicking the bucket, no writing can be good enough to justify the way this book is structured. there’s an art to leaving the reader in suspense about something by cutting from a tense scene and then there’s just . . . ripping the tension away to something unnecessary and honestly boring. i excuse blake’s tendency to overwrite and i can do it again, but it’s just so odd to me to insert these povs at the times they’re there. anyway. yeah. like do i understand how blake got to this point and why she wrote this book and the series the way she did? yes. it’s unfathomable to me, but i get it. do i like it though? now that’s a different story.
anyway. blake stuffers from stiefvaterisms in the way that her characters / character dynamics / prose are so insane, but the plots leave much to be desired. and i stand by this. wholeheartedly.