The Atlas Six - BookWyrm.de

16h runtime; Read by Steve West, Caitlin Kelly, James Patrick Cronin, Damian Lynch, David Monteith, Andy Ingalls, Siho Ellsmore and Munirih Grace.

Sprache: English

Am 1. März 2022 von Macmillan Audio veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-86046-0
OCLC-Nummer:: 1301391900

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The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation.

Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. Reina Mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. Parisa Kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the subconscious, navigating worlds inside the human mind. Callum Nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. Finally, there is Tristan Caine, who can see through illusions …

The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation.

Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. Reina Mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. Parisa Kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the subconscious, navigating worlds inside the human mind. Callum Nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. Finally, there is Tristan Caine, who can see through illusions to a new structure of reality—an ability so rare that neither he nor his peers can fully grasp its implications.

When the 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. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. The six potential initiates will fight to survive the next year of their lives, and if they can prove themselves to be the best among their rivals, most of them will.

Most of them.

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David Hughes hat Atlas Six von Olivie Blake besprochen

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Points of reference for this title are The Magicians and The Book of Skulls, two vastly superior novels. Six talented young magical adults are given the chance to join a secret mystical society that maintains the Library of Alexandria, but only five can do so, the other must die. What a stupid way of doing things, killing 16.7% of the most talented young magicians on the planet. Is this a society of cretins? No matter, once you start reading, you'll be hoping all six of these boring and obnoxious brats are killed. And do you know what? It will be a release for them; freedom from having to utter the stilted, trite and pretentious words the author forces into their mouths. I've watched plays written and performed by young farmers' societies with better dialogue. Blake makes George Lucas look like William Shakespeare. The world building is practically non-existent; how do …

Points of reference for this title are The Magicians and The Book of Skulls, two vastly superior novels. Six talented young magical adults are given the chance to join a secret mystical society that maintains the Library of Alexandria, but only five can do so, the other must die. What a stupid way of doing things, killing 16.7% of the most talented young magicians on the planet. Is this a society of cretins? No matter, once you start reading, you'll be hoping all six of these boring and obnoxious brats are killed. And do you know what? It will be a release for them; freedom from having to utter the stilted, trite and pretentious words the author forces into their mouths. I've watched plays written and performed by young farmers' societies with better dialogue. Blake makes George Lucas look like William Shakespeare. The world building is practically non-existent; how do all these magical folk interact with the mundane world? Are there regular human janitors and secretaries at the New York University of Magical Arts? How does magic work here? How can Nico be the scion of Cuban investor capitalists living in Cuba? Where are all the society members? Part of the problem is that the book is very claustrophobic - it's the six candidates interacting with each other with few outsiders, so it's lots of dialogue and interior monologues with little action (there is an action sequence in the first half of the book, but it's not well written (shocker!). And when will anything actually happen in this shitty novel (answer: not until the last twenty pages, when the author dumps a series of events upon us - the pacing is somewhat lacking). Libby and Nico make a nice couple and I hope they hook up in book 2. Oh and it's only adultery if you're married.

Mr.F

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