In place of scorched earth, there was now the faint suggestion of microwavable popcorn and industrial-strength laundry detergent—unmistakable top notes of the NYUMA dorms. The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake's New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six —guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos. Olivie Blake is the internationally bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Alone with You in the Ether, One For My Enemy, and Masters of Death. 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. The moment when others started to find something—many somethings—to reinforce their suspicions that Gideon was repulsive in some way.

But the pace of this book is positively glacial at times, and it’s often a textbook example of middle story syndrome, occasionally struggling to clearly articulate the reason for its existence. Clare expertly balances the needs of a satisfying plot with dropping tantalizing hints of what’s to come in future installments. The smoke was thick, chalky enough to stick in his throat, and if any of it was real it would constitute a medical emergency on the spot. Back in the present, Max nudged Gideon’s knee with his nose, just hard enough that Gideon had to stumble for balance.The Ashkar are the only people who can still use magic, and even though using or even learning about most kinds of magic is banned, they are still feared and discriminated against by the rest of the world. It was two weeks into the school year and Nico had climbed down from the top bunk, manifesting at Gideon’s side and startling him awake. The story itself, an adventure filled with riddles to be solved and problems to be overcome, is fun and interesting but overshadowed by the need to push every boundary. I’m Nico,” said the wild-eyed, messy-haired boy whose T-shirt was inadvertently folded up on one side from the presence of his duffel bag. The Atlas Six was noted for being a viral " BookTok sensation" with a larger " cult following" gained on after Blake's self-publication.

Things were not burning here, but his arm did disappear instantly, swallowed up to the cuff of his shoulder. 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.Because Nico was a physicist, he saw the world in terms of pseudo-anatomical construction, but Gideon liked to think of the world as something of a data cloud. If you do not know precisely where impossibility begins and ends, then of course it cannot constrain you. Their stories are less claustrophobic than in the previous book, as each character’s independent study projects force them to confront their own belief systems and the choices they’ve made thus far. The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to dark academic sensation The Atlas Six—guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos. Gideon Drake shaded his eyes from the red-burning sun and swept a glance across the scorched and blackened hills.

But as the remaining new members of the Alexandrian Society discover that joining a secret society isn’t exactly what they’d hoped—from the bizarre initiation ritual that requires them to publicly face up to their own weaknesses to the library archives that regularly withhold knowledge from them—they’ll have to figure out what exactly they’re willing to do with this new power they wield. On the other side of Castellane society is Lin, a young woman who is a member of the Ashkar, a small community that's forbidden from living outside their walled community.This dark academia masterpiece will have you gripping the edge of your seat as you turn page by page. 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. Other times it was merely about the sweat of it, the strain, which was a matter of simple but terrible endurance.

He screamed and screamed and tried from somewhere inside his agony to offer the proper capitulation, the secret password of sorts. YA giant Clare makes her adult debut with a whirlwind epic fantasy featuring secret plots, ancient magic, and hidden identities. 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. The dorm room faded back into the erosion’s distantly blazing hillside as Max supplied him with an unblinking look of expectation. ATLAS PARADOX bietet uns trotz teilweise schwacher Handlung ein komplexes und außergewöhnliches Lesevergnügen mit Sogwirkung und Suchtgefahr.Eine Magie die diesen Protagonisten eine Tiefe verleiht, welche sogar auf verschieben Ebenen fungiert. Something pierced Gideon’s neck, embedding in his throat, and Gideon’s airway was instantly compromised. 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. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.