Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

23 reviews

rnbhargava's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I quite liked The Atlas Six. The characters are mostly just the right level of “everyone believes themselves the smartest in the room but are they really,” for me. The character backstories and their behaviors, both in the Atlas Six and those overseeing them and/or friends/associates of theirs are all quite well executed. The personality contrasts between the characters and the way their abilities interact with each other creates so much intrigue throughout the plot. That said, at least one character gets the short straw in characterization. Also, the plot for this first book in a series of three doesn’t truly conclude itself. It worked well for me but I can see why some would really dislike these characters and dislike how this book concludes. I’m definitely continuing into book 2. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Much of the intrigue and conflict of this book is about idealogical differences, theoretically and in practice. There is questions about the morality of their abilities. There’s questions about what access to/denial of access to knowledge means. Is it right or not for a privileged few to have access to certain types of knowledge over others. Things are not always binaries too. If this doesn’t sound appealing, no harm in skipping this.

sarahl92's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Chronic illness, Confinement, and Alcohol

cham721's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Sexual content, and Blood

Minor: Incest and Sexual harassment

caseymac's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Confinement, Drug use, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

aliyachaudhry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Alcohol

kaylamoran's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

From the moment I heard that a self published book had exploded and was going to be traditionally published, I knew I had to read it.  I saw so many good reviews that it became a 5 star prediction for me.  I do think my crazy expectations did it no favours, but I loved it nonetheless.  A few things about the writing style or pacing irked me at times, but the story and the characters kept me going.  Multi POV is one of my absolute favourite fantasy tropes, so I loved that part of it as well.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Confinement, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Alcohol

melissa_rueff's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Very interesting read. I wish they made more clear lines on the romance between characters, I’m very confused. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

marareading's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

This scratched the dark academia itch for me. 6 people with various forms of magic ability all in the library of Alexandria for 1 year. Knowing that at the end of that time only five will be able to stay. Yet, what does that mean? How is it that one will leave?.... Some of them catch the deeper, and more volitile, dealings faster than others. The society has some deep and long kept secrets. 

These characters are all intensely written, and amazing flawed. I do wish there was more time spent on certain characters, and less time spent on side plots that in the end I felt were distracting more than helpful. I enjoyed this book and look forward to the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

tays_books's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Incest, Rape, Terminal illness, Blood, and Grief

cluckieduck's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The hype lead me here, but all I can say is that I think this book was trying to hard to be something grand. A lot needs to be tightened up - it just kept going in circles, filled with redundancies rather than fleshing-out the characterization or world-building that was deeply needed. That being said, it was good enough that I'll continue with the series to see where it leads.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Stalking, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment