The Atlas Six

De: Olivie Blake

Narrado por: Andy Ingalls, Caitlin Kelly, Damian Lynch, David Monteith, James Patrick Cronin, Munirih Grace, Siho Ellsmore, Steve West

The much-acclaimed BookTok sensation from Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six is now newly revised, edited with additional content, and available on audio for the first time.

• The tag #theatlassix already has millions of views on TikTok

• A dark academic debut fantasy with an established cult following that reads like The Secret History meets The Umbrella Academy.

• The first in an explosive trilogy

The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation.

Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. Reina Mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. Parisa Kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the subconscious, navigating worlds inside the human mind. Callum Nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. Finally, there is Tristan Caine, who can see through illusions to a new structure of reality—an ability so rare that neither he nor his peers can fully grasp its implications.

When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they will have one year to qualify for initiation, during which time they will be permitted preliminary access to the Society’s archives and judged based on their contributions to various subjects of impossibility: time and space, luck and thought, life and death. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. The six potential initiates will fight to survive the next year of their lives, and if they can prove themselves to be the best among their rivals, most of them will.

Most of them.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

Good narrators that’s about it.

This book is a solid meh…
Why you ask? Well it’s pretty much lacking in all fronts. The world building is weak, the characters are shallow and the ending was predicable. This books only redeemable quality was the narration which was pretty strong and gave the characters what little life they had.

My closing thoughts are this, it might have made a good TV show and don’t listen to the hype.

Brilliant!

Wicked good. In every way. Complex and irresistible. Addicting and precise. I can't praise more.

Unique storyline and twists

The book offers a unique plot and presentation of magical abilities within the classic “magical school/library” world. The abilities discussed in the book include some commonly used concepts, but it all manages to feel fresh. I enjoy all of the ways the story emphasizes transformative possibilities when magic is combined/cohesive.

The switching of vantage points each chapter allows for development of each character from both a subjective and objective perspective. Each character has their own filter over reality. The author artfully develops what there is to love and hate about the characters, especially the telepath/empaths, and the good and evil potential of those abilities.

Eager to move on to book 2!

Where's the sequel?

I absolutely love how different people read for different characters. It made each one feel individual and let their "personality" and view of others bloom. An interesting topic, a lack of conclusion. I'd read a sequel if there was one!

The story will reel you in

I really enjoyed this book. I found that the story was one that left you wanting to read more and I’m so glad that there are subsequent books creating this series!

However, I didn’t like some of the performances in the narration. It seemed like some of the characters didn’t match the same personality of the person who was narrating that character so it led to some really annoying instances of being frustrated during those chapters. And I also had to turn my volume up during Parisa’s narration because I don’t know if that’s her style — to whisper speak or if it was just for this book, I didn’t really enjoy her narration. I had to pick up the book a few times throughout reading instead of listening to get through it.