Book Beginning| Friday 56| Blogger Hop|| The Atlas Six (The Atlas #1) by Olivie Blake

Please join us over at RoseCityReader every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author’s name.

This is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice
These are the rules:

1. Grab a book, any book.

2. Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader.

3. Find any sentence (or a few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you.

4. Post it.

5. Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post.

I've barely have been finishing other books, I swear.... I just haven't had enough thoughts on them to share to here, just over on StoryGraph. I've been postponing my borrow of this book from the library since April. I thought it was time to read it so I can get to reading some of the books that have been on my shelf staring at me for years.

I've just been in a really weird reading funk. I keep starting other books rather than read ones I'm already reading. I hope this one can drag me out of my reading slump, I've heard really good things about it.

 

 Synopsis:

   The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation.
   Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. Reina Mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. Parisa Kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the subconscious, navigating worlds inside the human mind. Callum Nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. Finally, there is Tristan Caine, who can see through illusions to a new structure of reality—an ability so rare that neither he nor his peers can fully grasp its implications.
   When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they will have one year to qualify for initiation, during which time they will be permitted preliminary access to the Society’s archives and judged based on their contributions to various subjects of impossibility: time and space, luck and thought, life and death. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. The six potential initiates will fight to survive the next year of their lives, and if they can prove themselves to be the best among their rivals, most of them will.

   Most of them. 

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Book Beginning:

LIBBY

Five Hours Ago

The day Libby Rhodes met Nicolás Ferrer de Varona was coincidentally also the day she discovered that "incensed," a word she had previously had no use for, was now the only conceivable way to describe the sensation of being near him.

Friday 56:

It was a portrait, unremarkable, of yet another man with too much money standing alone before a tapestry.

 

 

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Q: What are some of your favorite books? 

A: Yona of the Dawn, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Mistborn, The Raven Rings(by Siri Pettersen),The Poppy War, Nevermoor...( and so many more)

the list could go on forever really