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Reviewed in India on August 28, 2024
The book I received was in a perfect condition and it is an awesome sequel of 'The Atlas Six'. Truly enjoyed it
missyou8671
Reviewed in Canada on March 6, 2024
Good quality, and nice story
Tom
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2024
Honestly this book is simply incredible.We dive deep into the story as it unfolds before us offering a very in-depth and intricate story. The first book seemingly set the scene and we then were plunged into the Atlas Paradox entirely!We learn so much more about the Society and we see each character develop (or deteriorate) as each page turns. We see how the effects of death and loss consumed those in the house and how it makes them stronger all the same.We see love, or at least a form of it, we see plenty of action and the twists and turns just keep us wanting more until the very end.Definitely well recommended and it made me dive straight into book three, wanting to know how it continues as things continue to expand at a rate that only the universe can compete with.
Christine
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2024
The writing is very intellectual - which will appeal to some and not to others. Brain driven, not sex driven plot.
Beguiled By Books
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2023
Favorite Quote: There is doom to be found everywhere if doom is what you seek.Story Synopsis: The Atlas Paradox is the second, highly anticipated book in Olivie Blake’s Atlas trilogy. Picking up where The Atlas Six left off, Paradox follows the characters after their first year at the Alexandrian Society. In this book, the characters spend more time in independent study for the Society instead of learning and collaborating. They each explore what their magic means to them and the world, as well as what they want their contribution to be. This book dives deep into the characters' psyches, and you’re left with a hell of an ending.Thoughts & Feelings: Unlike many trilogies, where the second book is a “stepping stone” book meant to get from the beginning to the end, The Atlas Paradox is a great book unto itself while contributing to the series. It’s well-paced, well-written, and the character development is fantastic. I’m only sad that I have to wait for the final book!
AMT
Reviewed in France on June 4, 2023
Badly written. Could've been GREAT if the author stuck to her principles instead of listening to dumb fan girls on social media. I hated the random ramblings about life or whatever. The story was going no where.
MARATIS STAMATIOS
Reviewed in Germany on May 2, 2023
Die gesamte Entwicklung. Zum Lesen.
John Mechalas
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2022
This second installment suffers heavily from middle book syndrome. It spends page after page spinning its wheels with not much happening, either with the plot, or with the characters.Like the first book, Paradox is character- rather than plot-driven, but that only takes you so far when most of them are reprehensible human beings. Of the Atlas Six, only two are not entitled, pretentious jerks that don't actively hate everyone else, and none of them seem capable of working with one another longer than the story requires. Why are these people so awful to one another? That's the question I kept asking myself, but I suppose a better one would be, why write a story about them if it's just going to be more of the same for two books? It's not interesting. It's not fun to read. It's frustrating to have chapter after chapter of characters maybe starting to grow and change, only to have them throw a temper tantrum and end up back where they started, lobbing petty insults at one another in the most pretentious way possible.Libby and Nico are arguable the most interesting characters in the story--they are actually decent people--but they get very little screen time. Most of the book is just a slog through pages and pages of rambling, inner dialogue from the worst humanity has to offer.It feels like this trilogy--assuming it's a trilogy--should have been a duology. So many pages spent covering so little ground.
complicaitreads
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2022
In a one sentence summary: every character falls somewhere in the LGBTQIA+ community, and I honestly was living for it.Libby Rhodes has disappeared, and the Atlas Six will never be the same. After going through initiation, the remaining five Nico, Tristan, Reina, Callum, and Parisa, must focus on their independent study. But they will soon learn the consequences to defying the library.The Atlas Paradox is different than The Atlas Six, but I enjoyed it all the same. In the Atlas Six, we got a lot more character interactions, whereas in The Atlas Paradox the characters are working individually to grow, forgetting the presence of the other Society members. It’s almost like Libby was the glue that held them all together, and honestly I love that for her.My favorite characters by far are Libby and Nico. I love how Libby grows on her own, and I love how Nico also does, and it felt like they were missing a piece of each other. One of my complaints about the Atlas Six was that we hardly knew enough about Reina, but that gets remedied in this book, and I loved getting to know her. Learning about Tristan as Tristan learns about Tristan was fantastic, and I can’t wait to see what becomes of him. Callum develops in his own way, as he learns the consequences of being alive.I love the sheer understanding of physics and life and matter and thermodynamics that goes into these books. For me personally with a background in this, I was able to follow along fairly well, even if some things didn’t make sense. But for someone who doesn’t have background and previous knowledge of that, I could see how the book gets boring and confusing.I didn’t understand Parisa’s storyline with Dalton. It was very back and forth. Her POV was beautifully written, and she felt like her own character, with incredible powers, but Dalton didn’t make sense, and Parisa with Dalton didn’t make sense.Overall, I need the next book because how could the Atlas Paradox end like this??
Sotto voce
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2022
Extraordinarily complex. It's an intricate read on many levels. From book 1, Atlas 6, a second installment reader should have already bought into the theme, plot, and premise. If that's the case, it’s a must-read in the genre from an author largely unknown 2 years ago.The characters, both protagonists and antagonists, are detestable. It's not easy to write such self-loathing characters consumed by their lack of redeeming social value. Delightful! Blake has the authoring skill for character development. I’ve not read a similar character-centric writer since Pynchon. The writing is extraordinarily skillful. Blake's writing has been the highlight for me.Blakes’s word-hoard palette is phenomenal. It’s fun to read such an expansive vocabulary correctly applied to the turn of a phrase. The twists and turns of conversation are just fun.Anyway, the characters are left trapped in a trap of their own making by the end. They remain so far incapable of even short-duration cooperation to engineer their way out of the trap.The third installment should be fun.
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