The Atlas Six

Love this book. The world building and magic system was reminiscent of Magicians - where science and magic meet. I was hooked! The society was well crafted and the mystique of it all really got me hooked. There were lulls and they only get bigger as the books progress. The series as a whole would be a 3/5. They slowly start to unravel and I found myself skimming over parts come book 3.

This book receives 4.5 stars from me! I’ll say this - I loved the characters. I was shocked to see so many people give this book lower ratings, when it is one of the better books about magicians and secret societies. Though in this book, they don’t call them magicians, they are meridians. I think that some rated the book lower because the author would sometimes use words that most of us would not know. An example of this? The word Defenestrate… which means to throw someone out of a window. When looking the word up, I realized that most people probably didn’t know this word because it said that it was rare, and in a one year period, it had been used less than 75 times on the Internet on general searches or something. It was obvious that the author may have been filling the book up with difficult words, because she had said something along the lines of - “I’m going to Defenestrate you out of the window!” Clearly the author didn’t actually know that word ahead of time, because she didn’t use it the correct way in a sentence. Instead of saying, “I’m going to Defenestrate you out of the window!” She should have said “I’ll Defenestrate you!” The definition literally means to throw someone out of the window, so it’s weird to say basically - I’ll throw you out the window out the window! Doesn’t make sense. So I guess in some ways, people felt intimidated by the bigger words, and therefore felt it was pretentious. Regardless, I did love the book and I feel like I’m going to go buy the second in the series before I pick up another book off my shelf.

At first I was skeptical because everyone basically said how it was a bad book and how it was disappointing, etc. I wouldn’t listen to that at all. It was an amazing book, although it was a slow burn with lots of emphasis placed on world building and developing a relationship with the characters. There was some character development and we get to see how they change over time, but what stuck out to me is the relationship between the reader and the characters. You start to feel like you’re part of the story after awhile, and get involved with possible scenarios and asking questions on which one of them you can really trust. She did a beautiful job of building the foundation for this series, so that we understand all of the inner-workings before getting into everything else. The next book is definitely going to be where a lot goes down. Overall 8.5/10.

So much teenage angst. I wanted to like the book after a strong start but I simply couldn’t finish it.

This book was the perfect blend of science fiction and drama and it gives Harry Potter vibes in some parts. Loved it!

Overall the book is a good character-driven story that sets itself up with interesting main characters, an intriguing premise, and a delightful mystery. Once that mystery is fully unraveled, however, the story quickly loses its luster with the final twist being entirely out of left field and not nearly set up enough to be satisfying.

Few books have intrigued me and stimulated my thoughts as this amazing gem has done. It’s got fantasy elements to drive the story but it is so much more. Need something new, then this is the newness you’ve been hunting.

It was really thrilling, with fantastic world building. you never really knew who to trust and everything was constantly changing. An amazing read I wouldn’t put it down.

Couldn’t put it down!!!!

this is a deep dive into a world of magic that is well defined and explained. for those of you like me who are a bit over analytical about magic systems that try to base themselves in the physics of our reality this is a book that does it quite well.