The Atlas Six

This was an interesting one. On the one hand I always love exploring cool new magic worlds/systems. On the other hand I felt that we didn't actually get to see them doing much magic. There was a lot of explaining stuff that had already happened. In a similar vein, I enjoyed a lot of the characters but bouncing around between 6 different perspectives on such a short book meant you never got the chance to spend any meaningful time with them. In the end it meant not feeling particularly strong connections to any one or what was happening. Which is another complaint of mine, this book spends a LOT of time doing seemingly nothing of note outside of “exploring” the society which turns up a whole lot of nothing. The book does finally get going once Libby is abducted and we finally learn things through ezras chapter. Its enough of an effort to get me excited about the next books in this series but comes at a detriment for this books rating