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frantically's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
I had no clue what this was about going in and I was pleasantly surprised! Usually I'm not the biggest fan of urban fantasy but this one was so well done, it just all felt really natural (and it gave me hardcore WINX-Vibes, if anyone else understands that lol).
BookTok has made me really apprehensive about a lot of the books recommended there â morally gray characters are just lazy Kaz copies, enemies to lovers is just straight up abuse, etc., but this book actually had interesting, multifaceted morally gray characters and I enjoyed that so much.
For much of the book, there isn't a clear villain, a clear force that has to be fought again and that offered a lot of space for characters development and introspection, which fantasy books often don't have enough time for but I absolutely adore it.
I'm looking forward to reading the next book! I hope it won't be just a duology, as there were so many possible storylines mentioned in this one and I hope they all get their space to be properly explored.
Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, and Abandonment
Moderate: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Terminal illness, and Injury/Injury detail
uranaishi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Blood, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Classism
sohma4uesugi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
There is no immersion into this world. My eyes kept jumping forward begging it to be over with faster. I would reread sentences several times and still be confused in the next paragraph.
Interesting characters were largely ignored and the uninteresting characters were heavily focused on. The artwork, though beautiful, strangely did not match the characters each section was named for, which didnât make sense to me.
It felt like whole chapters were missing and the ones that were there dragged on forever and a day. Anything interesting was just simply dropped the next page in infuriating regularity. The last two chapters of the book seemed like they were written for another work entirely, in that they were interesting and actually held my attention.
To go from talking in tiring detail about the complexities of stopping time to calling someone a useless fuckboi just because they could in the next sentence was jarring and not in a way to bring humor or relief from the vast complexities the text tried and failed to reach.
The concept was super cool and I wanted to love this book, but unfortunately, I did not.
Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Suicide attempt
kathleencoughlin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, and Sexual assault
sydneyluxford's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Drug use
omfgeleanor's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Hate crime, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, Grief, and Mass/school shootings
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, and Abandonment
jfield351's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Car accident, Abandonment, and Alcohol
allisonwonderlandreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Murder
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism
caseythereader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
- THE ATLAS SIX shouldn't work, but it does. Does it? It does. I liked it. I was sometimes bored? But I kept going? Yeah, I have no idea how I feel about this book.
- It's definitely very clever and keeps you hooked, unspooling plot twists and major actions slowly, between all the long conversations about the nature of time and whatnot.
- I think my main reaction is that this is what THE MAGICIANS should have been.
- Also, that Parisa realllllly verges on the trope of the insatiable bisexual (yet also unclear if she's actually queer or just slept with some women for power reasons? Why is this book hailed as full of queer characters?), though the reasons why she is who she is are laid out in the text, it still felt weird.
- I dunno, I'll probably read the sequel? Have you read this? Tell me what you think.
Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
oliviafendrich's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Alcohol
Moderate: Child death, Violence, Grief, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Confinement, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexism, Terminal illness, Vomit, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury