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The Atlas Six

The Atlas Six

by Olivie Blake


    This book has a lot of hype around it. Its beautiful, it has a nice weight when you hold it, it feels like a piece of art, and it had beautiful back and white images of the characters at the end of each of the six sections.

The actual story itself leaves a lot to be desired. The plot is about an elite society of magicians, and how six powerful individuals are invited every five years into this society to further develop their powers.

Two characters are life-long rivals (and that point is driven home one too many times) and the others don't know each other until they fly to the estate in England to study to enter the society.

The design on the cover is gorgeous with the silver illustrations highlighted on the mat black background.

All of the characters are fleshed out, and the point of view jumps to all six of them, which got a more than a little confusing. I felt that they were fleshed out for context, but then it went too far and brought in elements that gave nothing to the plot and were never brought up more than twice, and had such little impact on the story itself.

There were multiple points throughout reading this when I was wondering where this story was going. The big climax that was being led up to is printed on the back of this book. The readers know it the whole time, that only five enter the society, and the sixth dies. The characters don't know this and I feel like it would have been better if the readers didn't know until the characters themselves did.

There were outside love interest that didn't have a point of being in the story, everything was drawn out for a million miles and for no reason. Blake tried to explain everything at the end, but it was too little too late.

At that point, I didn't care what really happened with these characters, I didn't have a favorite character, they were all very unlikeable and I never really cared about who's perspective I was following. I didn't like how the only two female characters were portrayed as either awkward/annoying and underestimated her own power, or the type that uses sex to get information, while the four male characters were given other things to focus on.

It was not worth the read, it was a pain to get through and I won't be buying the next book or continuing this series. 
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