The Atlas Paradox: The incredible sequel to international bestseller The Atlas Six

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As for Libby, she’s trapped in 1989 and desperately seeking a way home—while asking herself how far she’s willing to go to find it. In the second of a series of fantasy thrillers that began with The Atlas Six (2022), new initiates of a secret magical society confront a web of dangerous conspiracies. It’s a slow, occasionally ponderous tale that’s fully redeemed by the twists and turns of its final third, but be warned: Much like the students in the archives themselves, you’re going to have to do the work to earn it. Perhaps there was no way that anything that came after those kinds of highs could ever hope equal them, particularly not the middle novel in a trilogy, which can’t give us the answers we’re so desperately seeking. He could feel it everywhere already, in the lining of his ears and in his teeth, taking residence in the rivulets of his scalp.

And those who earn a place among their number will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams.Despite the fact that Blake reveals some fairly key secrets about Atlas’s past and his ultimate future goals for both the Society and the six new members he has most recently recruited to its halls in this book, The Atlas Paradox primarily takes place in the heads of the story’s characters. The nightmare gradually subsided, giving way to the atmosphere of Gideon’s own dreams, and so Gideon followed the path that came to him most easily: his own.

When the newest candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they will have one year to qualify for initiation, during which time they will be permitted preliminary access to the Society’s archives and judged based on their contributions to various subjects of impossibility: time and space, luck and thought, life and death. It’s a deeply philosophical, extremely nerdy exploration of ethics and morality that ticks a lot of the boxes about what the whole idea of the dark academia sub-genre is supposed to be and do in the first place. Thankfully, by the final third of the book, many of the painstakingly laid out plots and multiple timelines finally start to converge, bringing the series’ characters back together and adding a very necessary jolt of forward momentum to the proceedings on the page. Gideon Drake shaded his eyes from the red-burning sun and swept a glance across the scorched and blackened hills. The dorm room faded back into the erosion’s distantly blazing hillside as Max supplied him with an unblinking look of expectation.To see where a person’s own consciousness ended and others’ began required a particular set of skills, and Gideon—who knew the shifting patterns of the realms the same way sailors know the tides—had even keener senses now that he rarely left their midst. The nobility of Castellane know Kel only as Prince Conor’s aristocratic cousin and closest confidant, but a select few know the truth: Kel is an orphan plucked from obscurity because he bears a passing resemblance to Conor and proved able to handle being trained as Conor’s “Sword Catcher.

The Atlas Paradox once again rotates POVs through all our major characters, adding in a handful of additional voices with brief snippets from Ezra, Gideon, and a new character named Belen, a Filipina undergraduate and climate activist in 1980s Los Angeles who ends up meeting Libby while she’s trapped in the past and whose life is brutally altered by their relationship.During this time, they will be permitted access to the Society’s archives and judged on their contributions to arcane areas of knowledge. His corporeal limitations were similar to those of telepathy—no magic performed in the dream realms could possibly harm him permanently, unless his physical form suffered something like a stroke or seizure. 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.

When he’s invited to play a dangerous magical game with a prize that could save his people, he goes all in.YA giant Clare makes her adult debut with a whirlwind epic fantasy featuring secret plots, ancient magic, and hidden identities. Telepath Parisa begins to discover she may actually be beginning to care about others despite her best efforts not to. The author highlights the dangerous selfishness of these behaviors with minor character Belen Jiménez, a Filipina undergraduate whom Libby meets and takes considerable advantage of in 1989 Los Angeles. ATLAS PARADOX bietet uns trotz teilweise schwacher Handlung ein komplexes und außergewöhnliches Lesevergnügen mit Sogwirkung und Suchtgefahr.