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Livia C, Reviewer
Thank you so much, NetGalley, Pan Macmillan, Tor, for the chance to read and review one of my most anticipated release of 2022 in exchange of an honest review.
"Knowledge is carnage"
Six best magicians are chosen to join the secretive Alexandrian society, whose custodian guards all the lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. Saying yes is easy for the six chosen, brilliant and competitive. Six invited, to fill five places.
Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona are inseparable enemies, cosmologists able to control matter with their minds, Parisa Kamali is a talented telepath, using her power and seduction to get what she wants, Reina Mori is a brilliant naturalist, able to perceive and understand the flow of life, Callum Nova is a cynic empath, able to manipulate others' feelings and Tristan Caine possesses a power he doesn't understand either. Following their recruiter Atlas Blakely, their travel to the Alexandrian Society's London headquarters, where they will study and research, learn and discover, proving themself to each other and themselves, while growing their own power. Will they survive? Or will most of them? In a game of power, secrets, betrayals and seduction, Libby, Nico, Parisa, Callum, Reina and Tristan will discover things about power and magic, science and history and the cruel secrets of the world around them.
The Atlas six is definitely one of the best book I've read in a very long time. It's a compelling and brilliant fantasy, set in a world where magic and magicians, called medeians, exist, in an, almost, alternative reality. When six brilliant and competitive medeians are chosen to be part of a secret Society a new world is revealed, full of mysteries, studies, dangers and powers. The story is told by six different POVs and the reader is able to understand and know each character.
Libby with her anxiety and questions, Nico with his own goals and friends to protect, Parisa with her past and goals, Reina with her quiet attitude and desire to learn and discover, Tristan with his cynism and way to see the world around him and Callum with his power and ideas. In a very dangerous and competitive enviroment they will bond, create alliances, break them, be suspicious of, afraid and mistrusting one other, while learning, researching and discovering more and more about their powers and how to use them.
In a intriguing setting, a library filled with all the knowledge of the world, Libby, Nico, Reina, Parisa, Tristan and Callum will face questions, dangers, each others' secrets and goals, in a beautiful and compelling learning enviroment. The mix of magic and science, their philosophical questions and discussions, while learning how to use their power, changing time and space and the world around them is really well written and interesting and I love how it mixes with seduction, desires, secrets and their own different pasts and goals.
Each character is skillfully written and they grow immensely in this book, both separately and in relation with one other, in mistrusting alliances, weird, expected and curious ones. They are very different from one other, regarding their own private goals and desires and temperamentally. One of the bond I loved the most is the one between Libby and Nico and how they grow from enemies to tentative allies and, maybe, more.
This book blew my mind and it absolutely one of my best read in a very long time, leaving with more questions and desires and I can't wait to know what will happen next!
I
"Knowledge is carnage"
Six best magicians are chosen to join the secretive Alexandrian society, whose custodian guards all the lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. Saying yes is easy for the six chosen, brilliant and competitive. Six invited, to fill five places.
Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona are inseparable enemies, cosmologists able to control matter with their minds, Parisa Kamali is a talented telepath, using her power and seduction to get what she wants, Reina Mori is a brilliant naturalist, able to perceive and understand the flow of life, Callum Nova is a cynic empath, able to manipulate others' feelings and Tristan Caine possesses a power he doesn't understand either. Following their recruiter Atlas Blakely, their travel to the Alexandrian Society's London headquarters, where they will study and research, learn and discover, proving themself to each other and themselves, while growing their own power. Will they survive? Or will most of them? In a game of power, secrets, betrayals and seduction, Libby, Nico, Parisa, Callum, Reina and Tristan will discover things about power and magic, science and history and the cruel secrets of the world around them.
The Atlas six is definitely one of the best book I've read in a very long time. It's a compelling and brilliant fantasy, set in a world where magic and magicians, called medeians, exist, in an, almost, alternative reality. When six brilliant and competitive medeians are chosen to be part of a secret Society a new world is revealed, full of mysteries, studies, dangers and powers. The story is told by six different POVs and the reader is able to understand and know each character.
Libby with her anxiety and questions, Nico with his own goals and friends to protect, Parisa with her past and goals, Reina with her quiet attitude and desire to learn and discover, Tristan with his cynism and way to see the world around him and Callum with his power and ideas. In a very dangerous and competitive enviroment they will bond, create alliances, break them, be suspicious of, afraid and mistrusting one other, while learning, researching and discovering more and more about their powers and how to use them.
In a intriguing setting, a library filled with all the knowledge of the world, Libby, Nico, Reina, Parisa, Tristan and Callum will face questions, dangers, each others' secrets and goals, in a beautiful and compelling learning enviroment. The mix of magic and science, their philosophical questions and discussions, while learning how to use their power, changing time and space and the world around them is really well written and interesting and I love how it mixes with seduction, desires, secrets and their own different pasts and goals.
Each character is skillfully written and they grow immensely in this book, both separately and in relation with one other, in mistrusting alliances, weird, expected and curious ones. They are very different from one other, regarding their own private goals and desires and temperamentally. One of the bond I loved the most is the one between Libby and Nico and how they grow from enemies to tentative allies and, maybe, more.
This book blew my mind and it absolutely one of my best read in a very long time, leaving with more questions and desires and I can't wait to know what will happen next!
I
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