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Atlas Six (Atlas Series, 1)

By Olivie Blake

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An Instant New York Times Bestseller
A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022
A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee

The much-acclaimed viral sensation from Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six—now newly revised and edited with additional content—is the first in an explosive dark academia fantasy trilogy that reads like The Secret History meets The Umbrella Academy

Each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to earn a place in the Alexandrian Society, the foremost secret society in the world. The chosen will secure a life of power and prestige beyond their wildest dreams.

But at what cost?

Each of the six newest recruits has their reasons for accepting the Society’s elusive invitation. Even if it means growing closer than they could have imagined to their most dangerous enemies— or risking unforgivable betrayal from their most trusted allies— they will fight tooth and nail for the right to join the ranks of the Alexandrians.

Even if it means they won’t all survive the year.

Also by Olivie Blake
The Atlas Paradox
The Atlas Complex
Alone With You in the Ether
One for My Enemy
Masters of Death
Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal
Gifted & Talented

As Alexene Farol Follmuth
Twelfth Knight

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Published Sep 6, 2022

416 pages

Average rating: 6.54

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JT Penguin

Aug 27, 2024

1/10 star

Started off very good and could have been interesting. But 100 pages in became wordy and academic and couldn't hold my interest.

BlurbsByBrunna

May 24, 2025

7/10 stars

3.75

Anonymous

Apr 02, 2025

4/10 stars

these characters were not nearly as interesting as the book claimed they were. lol they were awful

Finch

Apr 02, 2025

3/10 stars

Yeah, this drove me mad, I am fully on Callum's side if only to rid me of these insufferable people. Libby was kind of the worst and she didn't even realize how much she sucked. That Ezra turned out to manipulate her didn't excuse it because she was already shitty when he was pretending to be normal and boring. I really didn't like this book and I hope my book clubs won't force me to continue this series. I hate long introspection and pretentious throwing around of hypotheticals and cut off conversations that are resolved in flashbacks ten pages later and this book is full of it. For those who like that: This might be your book.

Pherfer

Mar 25, 2025

6/10 stars

Six magical students are specially chosen to study and apprentice at the hidden and fabled Alexandria Library. They must learn to work together in order to succeed. But that proves difficult when they don't trust or like each other. They all have particular magical gifts, that could complement each other, if they could only stop picking allies and trying to best the others in the group. The world building is not entirely complete, but since it takes place mostly in the library it doesn't effect enjoyment of the story.
I liked the characters, even though all of them are flawed and felt drawn into the mysteries of the secret society. My biggest beef with the novel is that it is incomplete. The ending is a cliffhanger, I resent that the author didn't finish the story. If it had ended two chapters earlier, it would have been amazing and I would have picked up the next book immediately. Now I feel manipulated and am avoiding the next book because how can I trust the author to ever finish her narrative?