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The Atlas Six

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The Atlas Six

By: Olivie Blake
Narrated by: Steve West, Siho Ellsmore, Munirih Grace, James Patrick Cronin, David Monteith, Damian Lynch, Caitlin Kelly, Andy Ingalls
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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.

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

©2022 Macmillan Audio (P)2022 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
Action & Adventure Coming of Age Dark Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Heartfelt Funny

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I tried this first as an ebook and failed. I struggled so hard. Then with the thought to get through it I got the audiobook to see if that would help. It did, but only after I restarted the audiobook twice.

I get what the author was trying to do but the story dragged and the characters were annoying and for the most part, unlikeable.

The story only got interesting in the last two hours of the book. The narration was confusing at times with the various non explained foreign dialect as well as voice actors attempts at other characters when in their POV.

I’m on the fence

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It took me forever to finish this! I think I listened to like 5other books completely since starting this one! Some of it was boring some very cringey! I most enjoyed the few chapters and the end scenes (some shorts a bit like deleted scenes) I wish the book as a whole had more of the interactions those end scenes did. It made all characters more interesting and relatable. I will probably end up going for book 2 but not going to worry too much if I don’t read it.
The different narrator voices was great but there were a couple I didn’t enjoy listening to all that much. As always wishing you got a snippet of everyone in the sample so you know what you’re going in for.

If nothing else listen for the last couple of chapters and the end scenes!

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this book started so well and had great potential but it ended with a flopping sound.

disappointed

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It was alright in the beginning but didn’t end up going anywhere for me. A bit slow and some of the characters were annoying.

Disappointing

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I wasn't able to emerse myself due to the constant flicking between different voices and characters. The storyline lacked development, overall an underwhelming read/listen.

too many narrators

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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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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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Very well told! I particularly enjoyed the usage of multiple narrators to symbolise each character's thiughts and stories. Great plot, with lots of wonderful twists! I've already pre-ordered the sequel - can't wait!

Incredible Story!

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I had high hopes for this book, but it didn't hold my attention. The storyline didn't convince me enough and the constant switching between narrators was annoying. By the time I got to the last few chapters, I had already checked out and was just waiting to move on to something else.
Maybe I'll listen to it again sometime and decide to move on to the next book, but not now.

Lost interest

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