The Atlas Six
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3.6 • 56 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022
A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee
The much-acclaimed viral sensation from Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six—now newly revised and edited with additional content—is the first in an explosive dark academia fantasy trilogy that reads like The Secret History meets The Umbrella Academy
Each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to earn a place in the Alexandrian Society, the foremost secret society in the world. The chosen will secure a life of power and prestige beyond their wildest dreams.
But at what cost?
Each of the six newest recruits has their reasons for accepting the Society’s elusive invitation. Even if it means growing closer than they could have imagined to their most dangerous enemies— or risking unforgivable betrayal from their most trusted allies— they will fight tooth and nail for the right to join the ranks of the Alexandrians.
Even if it means they won’t all survive the year.
Also by Olivie Blake
The Atlas Paradox
The Atlas Complex
Alone With You in the Ether
One for My Enemy
Masters of Death
Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal
Gifted & Talented
As Alexene Farol Follmuth
Twelfth Knight
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This melodramatic, series-opening magical school tale from Blake (The Answer You Are Looking for Is Yes) eschews action adventure for more cerebral, emotional beats. It begins as six young medeians, the most magically adept members of the populace, are initiated into the Alexandrian Society, the secretive body that alone has access to the reborn Library of Alexandria and all mystical knowledge therein. Each initiate has a skill set: Libby Rhodes and Nicolás Ferrer de Varona, long-standing rivals from their college days, are both physicists, practitioners of elemental magic; Reina Mori is a naturalist; Parisa Kamali is a powerful telepath while Callum Nova is her equal as an empath; and Tristan Caine has the power to see through illusions. Over the course of one year, they study in the Society's mansion headquarters, learning more about magic and each other, all while knowing that at the end, they must choose to eliminate one of their number. Little happens for much of the book outside of the shifting social interactions of these privileged and often smug or neurotic characters. It's not until the final twist that things pick up, a villain is revealed, and the stakes are set for the rest of the series. Die-hard lovers of the dark academia aesthetic will enjoy this, but others likely won't have the patience.
Customer Reviews
1/4 in and setting it aside for now…
I want very badly to know how this story goes, but the writing style is such a slog. Even the action scenes are dry.
Decent characters but a pretentious voice
The author tries too hard and just uses so many big words for no reason, they talk for pages and pages about nothing. I would not recommend reading it unless you recently lost your thesaurus and want to learn randomly placed obscure words. On another hand though the concept was nice and I did enjoy the idea of the characters and what was happening.