I am tired of seeing the archetypes being used and repeated over and over. These six characters, whom I adored in TA6, turned into one-dimensional, pure archetypical characters.

Instead of the unique dynamic the pitch aims for, the new alliances for me are nonsense and useless.įurthermore, this leads to some interesting (derogatory) characterization. But for what? I was asking that question throughout the 400 pages too. Instead of exploiting the details as much as possible to form PLAUSIBLE alliances, everyone kinda got involved with each other. Picture this: after the initiation, everyone now knows everything they needed about the other candidates, but no one knows that. This book was heavily promoted with the pitch of 'new, unlikely alliances', and maybe it seems like a good thing to spice things up, it ultimately did the unthinkable - make me hate every single character of this series. I am convinced that Olivie Blake has lost her grip on her characters. Now for the things that went wrong for me, and how ultimately I can't rate this more than a 1/5. In this 400-pages-book, around two thirds of them are essentially a guide of how powers work, but no real usage was seen throughout the plot (if there is, they were very, VERY vague.) It seems to be one of the main complains regarding TA6, so people who didn't like Book 1 because of its vagueness, will hate this. Too many academic topics, but too few explanations for how they might be relevant to the action of the story.

In this book however, I can't even follow the new study topics introduced anymore. They show me that Blake knew what she was talking about and that she is passionate about it. In The Atlas Six, one of my favorite things was the academic discussions between the candidates. Throughout this book, I feel like Blake doesn't know what she wants to talk about anymore.

Let's start where Olivie Blake objectively did wrong. This is my most anticipated release of the year (yes, surpassing even Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution, how unfortunate) and now The Atlas Paradox is going to be in my least favorite books of the year. I sure hope that Olivie Blake plans to name the third book 'The Atlas Redemption' and fixes this book or else this series will eternally rest in my wormhole of the forgotten series.Īllow me to quote Kaul Wen, expectations are a funny thing. Original review, probably contains mild spoilers from interpretation: EDIT : Apparently we are in 2022 and people on Booktwt are still unable to respect people's opinions (in this case, mine), and I feel like I shouldn't laugh but I am? 😭

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