i am tired and disappointed, but above all, i am angry.

the time has finally come for me to put this series to rest so i will never have to remember about the horrendous calamity this was. those who are on my bookstagram would know how bad i was FUMING from rage when i finished this, so let's talk and be done with this bother.

and before everything, i want to excuse myself for the crude language. this will not be a normal review, this comes from my rage and disappointment because i have loved the atlas six ever since its first self-publication. if it is to drag me on booktwt and send me death threats the last time with TAP, PLEASE, CLICK OUT.

if you had told me two years ago, right after my read of the TOR edition of the atlas six, that one day, i would hate this series with my whole entire being, i wouldn't have believed you, but unfortunately, this was one of the worst author fumble i have ever witnessed. when i wrote my reveiw of the atlas paradox, despite hating it, i still had so much hope for this one, because, above all, i trust olivie blake and she is one of my favorite writers of all time. i loved her dramione fics (despite being a dramione anti) and most of her books, i just couldn't think that she would fuck up what started as one of my potential favorite series of all time. for all it matters, after this review, i will pretend that the atlas six is a standalone.

objectively, the whole series was a mess in every aspect of the writing. the first book was criticized (not by me because i was partial to it) for its long, laborious descriptions of physics and philosophy. fine, most gave it a pass since it's the first book and it somewhat served the concept of the series. in the atlas paradox, the second book in a trilogy, as i have reread it recently, it is mostly description and no action, as if the whole plot was built from tenuous descriptions only and nothing else. after all, i would rather suffer through 400 pages of olivie blake's word vomit rather than another author's, and at least, her loooooong paragraphs about physics and morality are somewhat interesting. okay fine, however, i expected from the third book the explosivity promised by the marketing campaign, the violence, the clashes of moral conflicts, the eruption of endless suffering and anger. instead, what i got was another 500 pages of word vomit, recycled over and over. yes, i get that atlas is A, B, C, that his stances on the subject are D, E, F, but i DO NOT need those things repeated to me ten thousand times through ten different POVs. enough, really. reading this felt sitting through a two-hour-lesson from your least favorite professor in your least favorite subject, except they are high on drugs and drunk on vodka. seriously, THREE BOOKS of endless descriptions and it boiled down to the what happened??? be so fucking for real for god's fucking sake. also, i don't ever want to read about politics in that way again, if olivie blake wants to express her political point of view, please write a manifesto and move on. what is the point of writing about politics in fiction if it's to write it that?

when i started this series and particularly this book, i didn't expect the six to come out alive and well. i expected it to be a carnage, to be a heartbreaking event for the readers but a necessity to the plot. imagine how angry i am when i reached the first death, and then the second, ?????????????? what was the point of building characters, assuming that was the intention because it was in no case successful, if it is to end it all this? bsffr. i do not comprehend what has gone through the author's mind while writing this for her to say "hmm this might me an excellant ending". in the end, the characters who were killed make sense, but the way they died? criminal. if you have read the burning god by r.f. kuang, you would know that the way to effectively write a forseeable character death is definitely NOT whatever shit happened in this book. olivie blake does not know how to write a tragedy, if that was the goal anyway. the characterization (if we can call it that) went COMPLETELY off the rails, which render their death completely obselete and senseless. i swear, in the first 20% of the books, i thought this was going to get at least a 4-star-rating for the characters alone, because they were so good, so funny, so rightfully despicable in the TA6: libby's villain arc makes sense, tristan's unreckoning makes sense, parisa's scheming makes sense, until that 40% mark where nothing does. call me biased, but for me, this is character assassination from beginning to end, and don't get me started on the shippings. everything i loved from TA6 was crushed in TAP and thrown into a firepit in the one. i can't believe i spent three years of my life anticipating and caring for this series only for it to end this way.

bottom-line: i love gideon, i love book 1 nicolibby, i love callum in this book. the rest can burn in hell for all i care. what a tragic waste of time.

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pre-review:

imagine writing a wonderful first book then turning it into complete dogshit. couldn't be me. rtc

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currently reading:

i am just saying, no matter what happens, nicolibby will always have my heart and soul. i respect others' ships (i don't) but nicolibby is the blueprint
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