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A review by xrider
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
3.75
Few notes before jumping in. I made the error of starting this originally as the audiobook. I paused and went back to read it as it was much easier to process that way. I also went in completely blind. It was a rec with no info and I opted to keep it that way till the first page.
Onward
This was one of those moments I could use decimals on a Star. Give it rather a 3.5-.7 rather than the full 4. It was slow getting into. With it being mainly character focused you didn’t have a plot to pull you through but rather the writing. I personally really enjoy this style of writing. For some it may be too much of a word salad and there were definitely some parts where I did want it to pick up pace a bit instead of describing the same thing in a few different ways but the writing is done well enough the majority of the time to keep pulling you through.
With it being a character based book the attempt of diversity was there and it was mostly accomplished. There was however the same baseline where most the characters were difficult to get into until a bit further into the book. For the most part every character feels like a ‘I’m the best with no weaknesses’ bit (well minus Libby and Tristan even they tho had several moments of exception) and each had such an arrogance to them it almost took too long to get into a character. I believe I saw someone else say that once you get past the first chunk it gets easier to get hooked. I agree since this is around the part it gets easier to picks sides with the characters.
I feel like all these feels super negative hold on
Onward
This was one of those moments I could use decimals on a Star. Give it rather a 3.5-.7 rather than the full 4. It was slow getting into. With it being mainly character focused you didn’t have a plot to pull you through but rather the writing. I personally really enjoy this style of writing. For some it may be too much of a word salad and there were definitely some parts where I did want it to pick up pace a bit instead of describing the same thing in a few different ways but the writing is done well enough the majority of the time to keep pulling you through.
With it being a character based book the attempt of diversity was there and it was mostly accomplished. There was however the same baseline where most the characters were difficult to get into until a bit further into the book. For the most part every character feels like a ‘I’m the best with no weaknesses’ bit (well minus Libby and Tristan even they tho had several moments of exception) and each had such an arrogance to them it almost took too long to get into a character. I believe I saw someone else say that once you get past the first chunk it gets easier to get hooked. I agree since this is around the part it gets easier to picks sides with the characters.
I feel like all these feels super negative hold on