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The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake Book Review

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Hello everyone!  This has been a long awaited read and I finally have a review for a book that was popular a while ago. With that here is finally a new review up on this page for The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake. This book was great. It had a captivating concept and beautiful writing, however I cannot give it 5 stars. Typically when we talk about books and their driving factors, we think of two possibilities; plot-driven or character-driven. In this case, for the vast majority of this book, I wouldn't have characterized it as either. I would put it into a different category rather as "concept-driven". The twists and turns really just came in the last 75 pages or so of the book and the minor plot twists occurring at other times seemed largely brushed off. Additionally, I felt as though I did not connect with any of the characters and didn't feel for them whatsoever. I'm not sure if that was intentional or just as a consequence of having a multitude of POVs, but typic...