A bookshop wrote a tiny blurb to describe this book saying: “Six Slytherins compete for five spots in a super secret society…” Which pretty much sums up this book.

Most of these characters are terrible people, ones that you instantly hate but can’t get enough of. The whole magic system in this book was so interesting and I loved the idea that the library of Alexandria was not actually destroyed but instead hidden and became the heart of a secret society that only the best of the best are selected for every ten years. At its heart this book is all about magic and books and that was what drew me in immediately. This is a type of book where you immediately hate most of the characters, but the farther into the plot you get you start to understand them and their past more. Not a lot of authors can write that well, but this author did. Getting to gain knowledge from one of the greatest libraries in the world along with the characters was amazing and I honestly did not want this book to end. 

The only thing I think I have to say negatively about this book is that the title is a little on the nose. A character is named Atlas and it is revealed at the end that he is the bad guy, hand selecting these initiates to make his own group of Medeians in order to take over the society. Kind of gives away the point of the book if I’m being honest. But even with the bad guy being revealed by the title of the book, I honestly have no idea where this plot is going besides Atlas wants to take over the world. This series is three books long and I am very interested to see how this plot grows and eventually resolves.