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The Atlas Paradox

Atlas, Book 2

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The Atlas Paradox

By: Olivie Blake
Narrated by: Alexandra Palting, Andy Ingalls, Caitlin Kelly, Damian Lynch, Daniel Henning, David Monteith, James Patrick Cronin, Munirih Grace, Siho Ellsmore, Steve West
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The Atlas Paradox, the dark academia sequel to viral sensation The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake – a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller.

Inside the Alexandrian Society alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken and all must pick a side.


Six magicians were offered the opportunity of a lifetime.
Five are now members of the Society.
And two paths lie before them.

In this thrilling next instalment, the secret society of Alexandrians is unmasked. Its newest recruits realize the institute is capable of raw, world-changing power. It’s also headed by a man with plans to change life as we know it – and these are already under way. But the cost of this knowledge is as high as the price of power, and each initiate must choose which faction to follow. Yet as events gather momentum and dangers multiply, which of their alliances will hold? Can friendships hold true and are enemies quite what they seem?

©2022 Olivie Blake (P)2022 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
Action & Adventure Coming of Age Fantasy Fiction Occult Scary Heartfelt

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Blake brilliantly uses fantasy trappings, and plenty of cliff hangers and twists, to tell a story that leaves readers questioning everything they believe to be true in the world she has created (Library Journal)

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Difficult to understand the Callum and Parisa chapters

Loved the story! Unfortunately Parisa’s sexy drawl and Callum’s deep voice are missing those mid tone notes so it can be hard to understand what they are saying when played on speaker. Performance was great but I recommend headphones for these chapters. Loved the Tristan, Libby and Nico chapters.

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Atlas Ensemble succeeds again!

The multiple actors that make up this cast do a phenomenal job. sometimes their narrations don't meet the others, the main one being Callum which only like 2 characters try to pretend is South African. Otherwise they really bring this story to life, without it I don't think I would be as engaged with the story. The story meandered it's way with the last section really pulling punches.

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Strange volume level issue affecting enjoyment

I was looking forward to this. Haven’t even been 1/3 into the book but both Callum and Parisa’s voices are either whispering or shouting. Especially Callum - it is so strange where within the same sentence he whispered than shout. This is really annoying with the overacting or just lack of audio control.

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this book was more interesting than the last one, shame about the narrators who were awful to listen to

good book and yet hard to flow along to as it jumps around, a lot. The voices were really annoying - awful and cringe worthy to listen to; and the volume kept changing and made it difficult to listen to in the car.
overall o.k but I just wished they had much better speakers. it ruined the listening

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The full cast is amazing

This book just lost me a little. It was super slow too in my opinion

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Good story but has a tendency to drawl on in places

The performance of Parica gives me shivers in a bad way. I can’t take a whole chapter of the actress doing a slow oily upper class snooty rendition of the character.

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Intriguing story line but some of the voices really annoying.

Enjoyed the plot line but I found a few of the voices for the characters very annoying. Their accents were unconvincing and grated.

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Great second booke

I love how this book zoom out on the story, looking forward to the next one, Great narrations too.

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Great Story but Poor Voiceovers

Great story! However the rest of the reviews are very correct, the performance of Parisa and Callum’s voices specifically have been poorly audio mixed, tending to fade out into inaudible drawls and whispers. It is a little frustrating to listen to- and very difficult if not using headphones. If you’re a little picky with voices, I would give this one a miss and buy the book instead - as it’s quite an enjoyable story :-)

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Dreadful

Boring bloated overcooked. Terrible book and worse performance of the piece. Dreadful and not sure why I sat through it

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