The Atlas Paradox

DNF at 50%
i made it a mission to get to at least half way before DNFing and by god i did it and i'm proud of my strength it took me to get there. I am not strong enough to put myself through the rest of this book though so i'm not so perfect after all.

I never DNF but being tested for cancer this past two weeks and being told to brace for bad news and also getting surgery.. yeah it showed me that life is too short for books that rely on a overdone aesthetic to get by. I won't be DNFing many books because i like the finish books but i will sprinkle a lil DNFs here and there for the worst of the worst :)

thanks to my sister for buying me this book from the goodness of her own heart, it was shite but thx <3

Every character in this book needs to be curb stomped and spat on by all their resurrected ancestors.
This book was a waste of time.
Like yeah i get it, what was i expecting going into this book if i hated the first one? i expected nothing. I got the second book as a gift and had an obligation to read it as the book cost $22 and i just can't let that 22 go to waste.

i'm gonna give this book away to a charity shop as it's a fairly new book and won't go on sale for a while in any bookstore so i might just make someones day

???No plot, just vibes??? but the vibes were truly terrible.
I love a vague book with no plot, but it can???t also be painfully boring. I fell asleep reading this book multiple times. I switched to the audiobook because I physically couldn???t stay awake while reading it. I didn???t care about or feel invested in any of the characters that I enjoyed from book one, except for Libby. Both of these stars are for her story, because other than that I???m wholly convinced that nothing happened in this entire 400 page book.

Olivie Blake truly has such a unique and refreshing style of writing. I???ve enjoyed all of what she???s written so far, which makes this book so much more confusing and disappointing.

(And yet, I will probably read book 3, because of Libby alone.)

Really torn between two and three stars.

I loved TA6 so much that I feel sad giving this 2 stars, so 3 it is. Just mostly out of loyalty.

Dang. What happened in this book? Why are all the characters so flat and annoying? They were so dynamic and lovely in the TA6 with so much interesting commentary on the politics BEHIND magic. If you loved that too, do not come looking for it here.

Super disappointed.