READING VLOG: is this popular Booktok fantasy book worth the hype?? 

I was also skeptical when I picked up this book, but I'm so glad I did. 100% agree with you on all fronts and am now anxiously awaiting for The Atlas Paradox. Also surprised you didn't talk more about THAT scene ;), but she was great at writing that too! The writing def has a fanfic feel to it, I believe that's due to her previously being a fanfic writer-- but it's great for the pacing!

Trust in Regans ability to make you read any book she recommends. The way she narrates...chef's kiss

I watched this video and then immediately picked up this book! About half-way through now and loving it :)

Atlas Six was originally a self-published novel, and then it got traditionally published. As a self-published author, I'm a bit jelly lol. I just watched a video that (among other things), talked about how harmful lawn watering is to the environment. A green lawn looks pretty, but it can lead to chemical runoff and water waste.

yesss was so looking forward to your review of this one! was really surprised by just how much I loved this one, can’t wait for the second book to come out this fall. also, love your orange bag! 🍊

Regan you don't understand. You post and it's just instant serotonin for me 😅🥰

I just finished this book and had the same feelings! So good. I’d love to see you tackle other hyped TikTok books. I just finished the first two Bridge Kingdom books and would be curious to know your thoughts especially with it being associated with ACOTAR.

I recently finished Atlas six too and i understand what you mean exactly. Also a bit of info dumpy i would say ,but the writing style is amazing

Omg I LOVE The Atlas Six and Olivie Blake!

You said it perfectly. I loved this book and will get the next one. Another surprise book is Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu. 5 🌟 book.

yes this book was just sooo fun!! i can’t wait for the next book it’s just so different from other things i’ve read!

Oh my gosh I literally just started reading this myself!

I just finished this book and LOVED IT. I haven't been this immersed in a book in a while. I cannot wait for the next one!

I'm so glad to hear that you enjoyed Atlas Six! I have heard from several people that it was disappointing and so I wasn't sure if I was going to give it a go, but I think now I will give it a try soon! :)

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The Jesse Kamm sailor pants! Such a classic piece haha they look great on you!!

Listening to this one on my library app! I was excited to hear your opinion. I thought you would like it, I'm glad you liked the ending as my interest has been waning a bit and I'm a little over half way there.

I’ve had this on my TBR for so long now 😩

Thanks for the recommendation. I added this book to my wish list/TBR. BTW, I appreciate highlighting your Spam dinner. Our favorite is Bacon Spam. I'm in MN and yes, I've been to the Spam museum a couple times. Last trip I bought a special Spam slicer and my son got a Spam hockey jersey. Weird, but we love it.

You talking about it... Reminded me how much I enjoyed this book.

Literally just finished this book this morning! Excited to see what your thoughts are!

ok but I LOVE "stick with my cleaning bug while it's around"! I feel like that all the time!

I definitely agreed with everything you said about this book! I’m very excited for the second book!!!

if you want to read more fantasy books with scientific elements I'd recommend the gilded wolves trilogy by roshani chokshi!! it's a multi-pov (older) YA fantasy with a 6 person ensemble, a magic system that's very scientific in nature (at least it feels like that to me) and there are a lot of academic elements as well bc one of our main characters is an engineer and another is a historian and they're always working together& using their knowledge to solve riddles or investigate stuff, and it's SO good!! tho the last book wasn't that great to me, i still loved the individual character arcs & their relationships w one another

Loved this one too - so pleasantly surprised!

I love these kinds of videos! Definitely do it again!

Interesting to hear a perspective from someone who enjoyed it since I found it disappointing. But, I did read the original self-published version so maybe some of the issues I had were fixed when it was picked up by a traditional publisher. Maybe I should try it again.

Just finished it as well, totally agree, top book (don't really see where all the hate comes from, but I'm a fairly easy reader to win over haha!)

I finished The Atlas Six about two weeks ago, and it was so good!

Not related to the book, but I loved seeing that white rice and spam are your comfort food, I thought I was the only one who did this😂

I absolutely love your vlogs! also watching you get settled into the home you and Clay bought together just makes me so happy xx

Okaaaaaay you’ve convinced me!

As soon as I saw the video, the words- oh my gawdd she read it! Tell me if it's good so that I will add it to my tbr- came out of my mouth 😭😂🤣 This book has intrigued me for a long time partly becoz of its synopsis and partly coz I really liked Olivie's other book- Alone with u in the ether. The mixed reviews tho were stopping me from adding it to my tbr

Your YA comment was interesting - I think a lot of the negative reviews are coming from people who think that university-adjacent books are automatically YA. Also people who, for whatever reason, didn’t expect the language/dialogue in this type of book to be flowery and pretentious - not an insult to people who just don’t like it, but more of a genuine question as to why they would expect anything else, you know?

I’m trying to decide if I should read this cause I love A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik so much and this is always the one ppl recommend for dark academia. However, I feel like I’ll just start comparing the two books if I read it.

Let me at the bagel bites and pizza rolls! :)

To be honest I was very disappointed with the ending of atlas six - the pay-off was totally missing.

Awesome vlog‼️

you`re so sunny and cutee 🥰

Good to see other perspective. I was ready to love it and hated it, maybe that was the mistake. All the characters actually felt the same for me, in personality. I found the writting obnoxious and the pay off in the end was....zero. Also quite sadly, I was so interested knowing more about the society and the surrondings and got...nothing. I also don't comprehend how the characters spent a year together and have not developed relations between themselves. The magic was the more disappointing bit for me. 😮‍💨😓 I am interested on the second but very likely will not bother!

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If you - everyone else is free to comment as well:) - could list some books about assassin/spy school vibe books I will be so grateful. Also, more books that are secret society/ dark academia secret society:)

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The first half was just alright. The second half… most my annotations were “ugh” and “we get it everyone wants to have sex with Parisa” Bonus: Reina, the best character for me, hardly anything. So upsetting. Also found your end thoughts interesting. I literally skipped the parts about Gideon because it seemed so unnecessary and I’m the end… basically was. You didn’t need to know all that just for like 3 sentences to tie it all in. So annoying. The whole Parisa thing was soo dragged on. Wanted to see more about their powers. About their lessons. About the society itself. But nothing. Just them trying to be so philosophical to themselves and for what

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the more you were talking about the book the more I thought " oh that's exactly what I am going through" 😂 is that bad? please don t make me buy another book... #raeganmademebuyit

I did not like this book 📚 at all 2 stars for me love your amazing channel love your family friend John xxxx

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your background music is overpowering. Otherwise the video is thumbs up.

I'm a sucker for dark academia so I loved the theme of The Atlas Six. However I feel like book 1 didn't have much plot, just vibes. And the writing style has WAY too much purple prose. Every character speaks in such a pretentious manner. Like I get it, you guys are elites and clever, but you are simply twenty-something adults in a modern setting, not poets. You guys haven't even been in the society long enough to pick up half of Atlas's or Dalton's vocabulary. Shut up. I listen to this in an audiobook and whenever I see a chapter that's 40 minutes long, I roll my eyes knowing perfectly well it will only contain two scenes but dragged out too damn long because the characters speak in sonnets. The second book had slightly more plot. Slighty, from Libby's point of view. The rest continues vibing in the manor doing aesthetic research and playing mind games with each other, all the while using as many Words of the Day they saw from the Thesaurus as they could.

Video a lot more fun than book. Good ideas, terrible writing.

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