Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake

17 reviews

themdash's review against another edition

Did you read A Deadly Education and wish the characters were infinitely more unlikeable? Did you read The Magicians and wish there was zero atmosphere or world-building and the magic system was way more incomprehensible? This book is for you!

Also, skip the audiobook. Half the narrators are so bad it actually ruined my mood.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

cnannery19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

amelianotthepilot's review against another edition

5.0

gah i love this series

yet again another intricate insanely interesting dark academia story following our six 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

imageryx's review against another edition

I tried to give this book a chance. I really did, but there are so many holes I can't handle it anymore. None of the characters are likable anymore and some of the characters choices just don't make sense. 

• Like how did Reina develop a literal god complex?
• Why does Ezra barely care that Libby escaped?
• What exactly did Callum and Reina do to Parisa or Dalton? It was never explained
• The author actually translated one of Nico and Gideon's conversations but then didn't translate all of it??
• All of that on top of a magic system that BARELY makes sense, I'm done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Alcoholism

bookswithmaia's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Colonisation

louiserj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Violence

anton13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Reason it wasn’t a 5 star read was bc it was a bit slow to me. Now that could’ve been my fault for not being fully in the book when reading a lot of the time but still it felt a bit slow. Nonetheless the story was amazing and the twists and turns had me shook. I don’t know how I’m supposed to survive till next year before I get to read the third book but I’ll have to manage. I love this world and the idea that there’s magic and secret societies with so much knowledge. I can’t wait to see how their journeys will continue. And also the end😱😱 no way! I wanna say this: FINALLY!! And: it made me so happy and so intrigued for the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

raichou's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

Danke schön an NetGalley, dass mir dieses Rezensionexemplar zur Verfügung gestellt wurde.

Nach dem ersten Teil war ich so gespannt wie es weiter gehen wird und auch der zweite Band hat nicht enttäuscht. 

Es hat einen Moment gedauert bis ich wieder in der Geschichte drin war, aber dabei hat auch die Charakterzusammenfassung am Anfang geholfen. 

Eines der besten Dinge in Büchern,oder Geschichten generell, ist die Charakterentwicklung und davon findet man in The Atlas Paradox unmengen. Auch wenn die Charaktere alle Dreck am Stecken haben, fühlt man trotzdem mit ihnen und hofft, dass ihr volles Potential erreichen können. 

Die Übersetzung ist gut gelungen und war flüssig zu lesen, auch wenn sich in dieser Ausgabe noch ein paar Tippfehler eingeschlichen haben. Das wird aber vor Veröffentlichung noch behoben. 

Ich bin sehr gespannt auf den dritten und letzten(?) Teil!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, and Alcohol

kimtazo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

lozziereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

to the untrained eye, i am sitting in my bed with this book shut next to me after finishing it, but if you look really closely, i am actually rioting and screaming at a pitch unavailable to human ears (positive) . please finish this trilogy olivie blake my life… depends on it.

like i have some other things to say but i’m going mad rn so i’m going to keep them inside for right now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Violence, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Abandonment