The Atlas Six 📖

The Atlas Six

Blake Olivie
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fantasy urban fantasy / magical realism past tense third limited POV ~491 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

oppressive paranoid morbid

A dark fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence, sexual content.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 78
sparsedense
Pacing 65
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 92
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 80
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 60%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count122,757
Page count~491 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited