Review: The Atlas Six

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Some interesting ideas, and very intriguing characters, but unfortunately so crammed full of magic-science and theories etc that it was a bit of an effort to wade through a lot of the time.

I enjoyed the start; I enjoyed the end. Most of the stuff in the middle was so academic it bled all the fun from it and left me feeling like a kid in a class that's way too advanced for me. It was also just incredibly dull.

I thought I liked the Dark Academia genre but the more I read, the more I just think, 'who decided combining magic and theoretical physics would be fun??'

Frustratingly, though, the ending intrigued me enough to look into the blurb of book 2. I'm so curious, but I don't want to sit through another 500-odd page class on science I don't understand mostly because it's been invented by someone way smarter than me.

Character thoughts? Nico, yes. Libby, yes, but make her a little less whiny; Tristan ... yes, but please show me more of what he can do. Parisa, oh yes. I like that I don't know if I like or loathe her. Reina, no real opinion because the poor girl barely rated in this book. I like her edginess though. Callum? Hard no.

Who would I recommend this book to? Smart people, and/or dumb people who want to seem smarter than they are by talking about how much they loved this erudite book.

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