Reviews

The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake

refrejarator's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Honestly, it's really well written, but very depressing. Very futile and honestly I wish I didn't read it so everyone stayed happy in my mind.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Violence, War, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Drug use, Police brutality, Child death, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Cancer, Classism, Colonisation, and Grief

this book buries gays - especially Nico and Callum

travelreader85's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.0

paulreads's review against another edition

1.0

I hesitantly give this a 2 star rating (this may change after I've had more time to truly digest). I enjoyed the first two books in this trilogy, and I also enjoyed a few parts of this book. However, something was just off. I found that I really disliked and had problems with what happened in this book.

Update: I am very disappointed.

alessiascillia's review against another edition

3.0

well I’m glad that’s over :) this actually slumped me so bad

aic96's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

ueberghost_'s review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

alittlebird's review

mysterious reflective tense

2.0

I was so-so on this series from the beginning, but this one actually felt like a chore. I found the characters overall unlikeable (but not in the good way that is morally grey) and no one got what I'd actually call a character arc. Even though people died for it, I never actually felt like anything had stakes, because we spent so much time at a crawl of nothing? For a character-driven experience, I honestly couldn't tell you anything deep about a single character. 

But at least I stuck around long enough to push through to the ending. Though I'm ultimately left wondering at the why of it.

jenscott's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

I should have DNFed this book. It was so long mostly due to the fact that it's just the main characters inner monologues through the whole thing. And I can't even tell you what happened. Except for the ending,

where all the characters I cared even a little bit about died.

Booktok was wrong on this series, guys. Don't bother.

claresa's review against another edition

challenging dark tense

harryshippiemusic's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25