THE ATLAS COMPLEX SPOILERS
ik it’s hinted that he’s alive when james wessex sees platinum blond but i still get irrationally angry every time i think about callum nova’s potential death. he wanted to die of high cholesterol not stupidly being shot by tristan’s dad because he stupidly made a deal he wasn’t even going to go through with.
if ur gonna let callum think all those happy eureka! thoughts right before his “death” and then end up killing him, it’s not bittersweet, it doesn’t fulfill his character arc, it’s just lazy writing. olivie blake wanted her readers to be upset, to immortalize her series with “oh what a great series” but this is NOT the poppy war or six of crows. bc those books had enough of the characters’ actions and fast paced plot to keep the reader engaged and it made the deaths kinda worth it. callum’s death wasn’t worth it.
and then she writes a cheap way out, one that blake hopes to keep people talking about her book more, one that gives her an easy way out if she gets accused of burying the gays (which she does THREE times in the series). she adds the platinum blond to the security camera and she hopes her book will live on with a #ambiguous! just like iwwv did.
i just don’t understand if 1) that was her plan all along in which case it was a terrible idea or 2) she got heavily influenced by social media and the fact that the TV show is in the works (which ugh reading the book it’s so obvious she was thinking about the show the whole time)
and also it sucks that she never told us what callum/tristan did in book 1 when tristan said “i see u” and callum let him in??? idk if she even knows what happened herself tbh
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Atlas Complex Spoilers
I think...I think Nico would have died anyway. Knowledge was corrosive to him because the high, the joy, the thrill of simply asking the question was enough for him to want to do the experiment. He always would have tried it. He always would have convinced Libby (except for those universes he didn't, the ones he ran out of time to, the ones he chose not to, but in this universe he would and could and ultimately always have succeeded) and he always, in this world, in our main world, would have missed just how dangerous the magic was, how overpowering, because his trust in Libby was infinite. Indefinite. Unstoppable.
He always would have chased the knowledge. And he always would have asked and asked and asked.
He didn't know where the money came from. Why bother? It's always there and he's above those peoblems, those questions. Having money was a given, a foundational fact to build up off of. And he built high. Too high.
He would always have died.
Unless Libby decided to be better. Unless Libby decided to try to be better. Unless Libby had spoken up, told it all, faced herself, trusted Nico half as much as he trusted her.
It was Libby's decision, which of them was destroyed by their lust for knowing. It was Libby's decision, which half of the whole that was them, would die or live in the necessity for balance. And she was selfish. Because she knew. And she wanted to know more.
I think Nico was always going to die here. In this world.
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olivie blake should have never give me that last crumb, now I'm going to eat her whole marzipan house and live rent free in the space between delusion and canonical events
like: "a glimpse of platinum blond winked before the lens." ???? that useless pathetic blond man is totally alive and peeling oranges for the love of his life tristan caine.
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This is how I'm imagining Callum's sunglasses in book three
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demi Callum?????? I wasn't expecting that one but it makes so much fucking sense i love it
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i just finished the atlas complex and had to stare at the wall for a good minute.
what.
i don't think i could have predicted that in a million years.
OKAY BUT REINA X PARISA WE WON WE WON LET'S FUCKING GO I DID THROW THE BOOK (onto my bed) BUT YESSS IT WASN'T DELUSION IT WAS JUST SLOW BURN I WAS RIGHT!?!?!?!?!!!!!!
no one died wdym
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PLLEEEASSE BE NORMAL (don't i love you)
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