Libby and Nico are both skilled in physical magic (and are rivals just graduating school and trying to escape each other). Reina is a naturalist (more powerful than anyone even knows). Tristan is about to be married and adept at illusion, specifically seeing through all illusions, and is only happy to relinquish his relationship. Callum is an empath, able to manipulate the emotions of all those around him. Parisa is a telepath more powerful than ever seen before, scarily so, and ready to battle for her spot. This book is a dark academia novel with magic thrown in and science underlying how magic can be wielded and manipulated. I went into the book thinking it might be hard to grasp the magic system, as I had hear it was very science based, but I actually found it to be easy to follow along and understand. Then again I read Vita Nostra; if you are looking for a book about magic that will bend your mind and make you question what you are reading than I highly recommend this book. However, in terms of The Atlas Six, I enjoyed the philosophical talk most about the book, the urge to discover new, but also the toll it might take on a body, or the implications of what they discover and then put into the world. Lots of talk about time, space, reality, bending elements of these to your will, and how each of their powers could be interconnected to create new magic. My biggest issue with the book was my lack of connection with the characters, and the fact I truly only cared about the well being a two of them. Reina was my favourite character by far and the easiest one to understand in terms of motivation. She does not want to be used for her abilities, so she would throw herself into a society that would give her the power to avoid becoming a human battery. And, funnily enough, I liked Callum even though he was meant to be the "bad guy" of the initiates. He was so easy to relate to, with his empath powers he has no need to be anything other than what he is, he can persuade people to do anything (and in this way can never know if anyone actually cares for him or if he has made them care). I actually felt his was the saddest of the stories, other than Tristan with his gangster father and Parisa with her beauty and family issues. But, it was hard not to care for him when you knew everyone was vying for him to fail, for fear of what he is capable of (especially when the other candidates were so annoying). Tristan was okay, but was so easily duped by everyone around him. For someone who can see through illusions he is pretty blind. Easily distracted by a pretty face and power. He did, however, make a much better main character than either Libby or Nico. The two of them together with their bickering was not endearing, but just frustrating. I in no way actually wanted it to become a hate to love situation, because I could not see any sparks between them. I preferred Nico when he was dealing with trying to free his best friend Gideon from his mother's grasp. Gideon would have been a phenomenal main character, too bad he was a side character. As frustrated as I was with Libby as a main character, with Parisa being so cut throat immediately, with Nico apparently having a rival thing with Libby but it actually seemingly more one sided on her part. The book was fast paced and intriguing. I wanted to keep reading in order to find out the truth about the Alexandrian Society. Especially their caretaker, Dalton, and the man who brought them into program, Atlas. It was fun to try to figure out who had ulterior motives, who was good versus who was bad (hint everyone can have both in them at any given moment), and who would come out the victor for the five coveted positions.
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