Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

28 reviews

clfknit's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.5

I did not care for any of the characters and that is a problem since from the first someone is going to die. I don’t consider it a spoiler because it is on the cover. It is clearly a first of a series which I may not read. I was going to give it a two but the most interesting part is the end so I will give it more. I wasn’t going to finish it but I am glad I did. I am clearly not the target audience

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Murder

frantically's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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

4.75

This book is just: "You don't know anything about physics? Sucks to be you 🖤" for almost 400 pages.

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 — 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.

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Content Warnings

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

lynnannwalsh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

neverlandangel's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual content and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Child death

kayladaila's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Chronic illness, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

omfgeleanor's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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: 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

li_reading's review against another edition

5.0

Now that I’ve re-read it (twice) and catalogued all the changes, expect a video in the next couple days. 

I will say, I do think the new edition is an improvement to the original.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Misogyny

tahsintries's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Car accident

dosymedia's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

I. Loved. This. It was super addictive and had (for me) the right balance between relationships and everything else, which I think it manages primarily by being so about intergroup politics/backstabbing & personal drama.

- do you love pretentious intelligentsia & academicians with murderous bents? imo, if you liked the prose and the narration in the Red Rising series or in Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights, specifically for the broad inclusion of the social sciences and philosophy, this might intrigue you
- the magic is wishy-washy, v. soft, but worked for me tonally
- everybody queer, yay!
- romantic relationships develop out of nowhere, i was most convinced by preexisting romances.
- most characters had shallow arcs, but i loved the characters as written, there wasn't a dull combination to read on-page
- highly recommend the audiobook! it's a full cast 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Incest, Sexual content, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

parkerknoll's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

The concept is wildly entertaining; the execution falls short. Up until the last two or three chapters it was a struggle to care about the plot. Such a great opportunity to build huge suspense and it didn’t deliver on that throughout the book. Legit the last 50 pages were great- should have had that pacing and intensity the whole time. The build was too slow, I didn’t care to read in one sitting. The character development was iffy and felt like character choices were constantly repeated to propel their actions but it didn’t. it all seemed like filler? Especially if the last 50 pages were the true mystery, what was the point of diving into such small details for pages and pages. Not everything seemed intentional I guess. I don’t know, felt like this really great concept fell short. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol