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The Atlas Six

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The Atlas Six

By: Olivie Blake
Narrated by: Andy Ingalls, Caitlin Kelly, Damian Lynch, David Monteith, James Patrick Cronin, Munirih Grace, Siho Ellsmore, Steve West
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The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake is the runaway TikTok must-listen fantasy novel of the year, read by a full cast of narrators. If you loved Ninth House and A Deadly Education, you’ll love this.

Secrets. Betrayal. Seduction.
Welcome to the Alexandrian Society.

When the world’s best magicians are offered an extraordinary opportunity, saying yes is easy. Each could join the secretive Alexandrian Society, whose custodians guard lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. Their members enjoy a lifetime of power and prestige. Yet each decade, only six practitioners are invited – to fill five places.

Contenders Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona are inseparable enemies, cosmologists who can control matter with their minds. Parisa Kamali is a telepath, who sees the mind’s deepest secrets. Reina Mori is a naturalist who can perceive and understand the flow of life itself. And Callum Nova is an empath, who can manipulate the desires of others. Finally there’s Tristan Caine, whose powers mystify even himself.

Following recruitment by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they travel to the Society’s London headquarters. Here, each must study and innovate within esoteric subject areas. And if they can prove themselves, over the course of a year, they’ll survive. Most of them.

The story continues in The Atlas Paradox, the heart-stopping sequel.

‘Great plot, with lots of wonderful twists! I've already pre-ordered the sequel’ – Listener Review

‘Just wow! The use of words... the thought going into every phrase... the writing in itself is just magical. And... the narrators are brilliant too.' – Listener Review

‘An amazing book by a ridiculously talented writer’ – Listener Review

Originally a self-published sensation, this edition has been fully edited and revised. Now includes the short story Sacred Hospitality.

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Critic reviews

Lethally smart. Filled with a cast of brilliantly realized characters, each entangled with one another in torturously delicious ways,<b> <i>The Atlas Six</i> will grip you by the throat and refuse to let go. Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent</b> (Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights)
<i>The Atlas Six </i>introduces six of the most devious, talented, and flawed characters to ever find themselves in a magical library, and then sets them against one another in a series of stunning betrayals and reversals. As much a delicious contest of wit, will, and passion as it is of magic, <b>this book is half mystery, half puzzle, and wholly a delight</b> (Holly Black)
<b>Compelling, entertaining, and addictive</b>. This is academic Darwinism – survival of the smartest (T. L. Huchu)
With a fascinating magic system explored through the lens of philosophy and morality, narrated by dynamic, enthralling characters, <i>The Atlas Six</i> is a tour de force. I read this book in two sittings – <b>once I picked it up, I found it almost impossible to put down</b> (Christine Lynn Herman)
This chilling story of ambition and magic will make you question your own morals as you grow to love (and hate) its fascinating, ruthless cast of characters.<b> I utterly devoured this book</b> (Amanda Foody)
<i>The Atlas Six</i> will thrill those who love twisted plots, twisted relationships, and morally grey characters ready to kill for knowledge and power. <b>Dark, ambitious, and engaging</b> (H. G. Parry)
With a cast of complicated hate-to-love-them characters and enough delicious philosophizing to satisfy even the pickiest dark academia heart, <b>this book will drag you into its undertow and refuse to let you go 'til morning</b> (Victoria Lee)
Coolly horrific, brilliantly brainy and<b> utterly compelling</b> (Daily Mail)
Dense with ideas, with a compelling premise . . . <b>a richly satisfying head-trip</b> (SFX Magazine)
This audiobook includes newly revised and expanded material that is fully realized by a talented ensemble of narrators, including Steve West (Callum Nova), Caitlin Kelly (Libby Rhodes), and David Monteith (Tristan Caine). <b>Six exceptional individuals are recruited by the enigmatic Atlas Blakely to join the Alexandrian Society, an exclusive, powerful organization focused on arcane and esoteric knowledge. Hearing the prospective initiates from alternating points of view as the competition unfolds between the candidates adds layers and nuance to their tenuous alliances.</b>
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The idea is intriguing and it starts well with exceptional magicians invited to a secret society. I felt however that far too much was just interplay between the contestants which seemed to me to add little to the story; and not enough action. It certainly picked up again towards the end but overall for me each new magical power thrown into the mix removed all narrative tension as anything was potentially doable. Good performance, won't bother with the sequel.

Magic only gets you so far

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The premise of this story really appealed to me but I couldn’t help but find everything about this audiobook slow and labored. The six narrators varied so much, the characters never seemed to ‘gel’ together in anyway (even those who were linked / allied) and they were all pretty horrid as people/medians. I left this four hours from the end and just googled the ending as I found I honestly didn’t care how we got there, but wanted to know where it was all going as it had been so slow. I won’t return for the follow up.

Average

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Multiple narrators for a book in 3rd person really doesn't work. Story was interesting and had potential but could do with a little more action.

overall just ok

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I loved this book. The author has created a believable world where magic exists in many forms. The plot can get complicated but I liked that as it meant I had to stay focused on my listening so I didn't miss anything important and I couldn't guess what was going to happen.

The narration was good but I felt some characters weren't narrated as well as others. Some of the accents wavered which could be confusing as to who was speaking and I also had to stop the audio at times to check I'd heard correctly as I didn't recognise the word (that was because the narrator had mispronounced it so badly I thought it was a different word). I understand that there are differences between British and American English but I have listened to many other books narrated with American English and could understand them perfectly. These were mistakes which shouldn't happen it's very distracting.

I'm looking forward to either reading or listening to the next book in the series.

Great story but narration could have been better

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This is how you write a series. Cleverly written makes you want to come back for the next part.

Loved it

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The books started off with potential. It felt rushed at the end. There’s lots of unnecessary detail which doesn’t add to the plot of the story. Some character development needed with Callum, Nico and Reina in particular. Some of the stereotypes are cliche. Like Atlas’s Burberry suit. It’s as if they’re all based on some parody characters. Definitely would’ve preferred more setting descriptions as that seemed key to the plot at times.
The narration was not good especially the story at the end. There’s a prejudicial mock Indian accent for a character at the end which wasn’t needed.

Unnecessary detail which didn’t move the plot along

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not finished the book yet but am enjoying some of the plot points, especially Nico's chapters. slow burner but I think I will reread this at some point.
if you liked this, try the Magicians series by Lev Grossman which I will have to reread after this.

Slow burner

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It took me a while to really get into this book - like 2/3 of the way in as some of the characters took a while for me to warm up to them and actually care about them. The narrations were a bit of a mix bag - some were excellent and some not as clear (the narrator of Parissa whispers a lot and they have an amazing voice but the sultury style is really hard to actually hear the words).

After listening to Book 2, in retrospect, I can see the way the writer builds up the characters and the story and it is very cleverly done.

definitely worth a read/listen!

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I wanted to enjoy this book so much, but I just couldn't get past some of the clichés and unfortunate writing choices. This author deserves a really good editor to help communicate their brilliant ideas to the reader. Sad not to leave a better review!

Great idea, disappointingly executed

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There’s a lot of hype around this and I might have enjoyed it more if I hadn’t just read a lot of books with deeply built and complexly structures worlds. The narrators are all alright, Libby’s is by far and away the best performance and Tristan’s the worst, but overall they’re disjointed and jarring. The story is interesting but the world is under built and under explained and the plot is slow.

Overall definitely greater than the sun of its parts, enjoyable on the whole but if you look closely at any one part it falls apart … having said that, for what it’s worth I don’t doubt I’ll read the sequel when it comes out, but I don’t think I’ll be recommending it to many people if that makes sense

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