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a_chickletz's review
2.0
Okay. I made it more than half-way through this book and just gave up with it.
It had too clean and too surface-y writing to it. What I mean is, you just didn't really get deep into their psyches or in their feelings. This is a woman who has ostracized herself from the world because she helped make the bombs they dropped in the second world war.
What is this book really about? Her feelings about a man who used her and dumped her, forget about her feelings regarding the war. This guy is way more important.
What really annoyed me is how long we were strung along with him crawling back to her and playing this:
Him: I wanna tell you what I'm doing, but you have to trust me
Her: Okay, I'll trust you.
Him: No, not now.
[Hangs out with him more.]
Him: I wanna tell you what I'm doing, but you have to trust me.
Her: Okay, I'll trust you?
Him: No, still not now.
[Sleeps with him.]
Like on and on this went. You know what was a good book that had characters and a mixture of the second world war? The Huntress. That book was good. That book was WELL DONE. I cared for the characters. This is some wishy-washy story about some woman moaning about being jilted and playing the 'oh I feel bad that I caused the death of so many people' card but not doing a thing about it to rectify her feelings.
Just don't read this book. Read a book like The Huntress, that is a book about catching someone.
It had too clean and too surface-y writing to it. What I mean is, you just didn't really get deep into their psyches or in their feelings. This is a woman who has ostracized herself from the world because she helped make the bombs they dropped in the second world war.
What is this book really about? Her feelings about a man who used her and dumped her, forget about her feelings regarding the war. This guy is way more important.
What really annoyed me is how long we were strung along with him crawling back to her and playing this:
Him: I wanna tell you what I'm doing, but you have to trust me
Her: Okay, I'll trust you.
Him: No, not now.
[Hangs out with him more.]
Him: I wanna tell you what I'm doing, but you have to trust me.
Her: Okay, I'll trust you?
Him: No, still not now.
[Sleeps with him.]
Like on and on this went. You know what was a good book that had characters and a mixture of the second world war? The Huntress. That book was good. That book was WELL DONE. I cared for the characters. This is some wishy-washy story about some woman moaning about being jilted and playing the 'oh I feel bad that I caused the death of so many people' card but not doing a thing about it to rectify her feelings.
Just don't read this book. Read a book like The Huntress, that is a book about catching someone.
aotales's review
2.0
Unfortunately even a fantastic narrator and raving recommendation from Delia Owens couldn’t save this one for me. I was really hoping for something along the lines of Kate Quinn and The Huntress - an immersive historical fiction spy novel centring around an intriguing female scientist ahead of her time. This isn’t that.
Really, Atomic Love, is just an awkward drawn out romance novel — why I didn’t get this from the somewhat kitschy title, I don’t know. For being loosely based on the sole female scientist on the Manhattan Project, Rosalind is a very passive floundering character who drifts between the whims of her controlling sister and the love triangle she finds herself in. Love triangles are never my thing to begin with but what makes this one especially worse is that it is extremely challenging to like one of the men, and I could never understand why this intelligent woman would even give him the light of day.
Melodramatic and somewhat frustrating, when the spy part actually comes to play near the end of the book it is rushed and underplayed in exchange for a sentimental ending that somehow doesn’t fit the whole. There are better in this genre.
Really, Atomic Love, is just an awkward drawn out romance novel — why I didn’t get this from the somewhat kitschy title, I don’t know. For being loosely based on the sole female scientist on the Manhattan Project, Rosalind is a very passive floundering character who drifts between the whims of her controlling sister and the love triangle she finds herself in. Love triangles are never my thing to begin with but what makes this one especially worse is that it is extremely challenging to like one of the men, and I could never understand why this intelligent woman would even give him the light of day.
Melodramatic and somewhat frustrating, when the spy part actually comes to play near the end of the book it is rushed and underplayed in exchange for a sentimental ending that somehow doesn’t fit the whole. There are better in this genre.
aotales's review against another edition
2.0
Unfortunately even a fantastic narrator and raving recommendation from Delia Owens couldn’t save this one for me. I was really hoping for something along the lines of Kate Quinn and The Huntress - an immersive historical fiction spy novel centring around an intriguing female scientist ahead of her time. This isn’t that.
Really, Atomic Love, is just an awkward drawn out romance novel — why I didn’t get this from the somewhat kitschy title, I don’t know. For being loosely based on the sole female scientist on the Manhattan Project, Rosalind is a very passive floundering character who drifts between the whims of her controlling sister and the love triangle she finds herself in. Love triangles are never my thing to begin with but what makes this one especially worse is that it is extremely challenging to like one of the men, and I could never understand why this intelligent woman would even give him the light of day.
Melodramatic and somewhat frustrating, when the spy part actually comes to play near the end of the book it is rushed and underplayed in exchange for a sentimental ending that somehow doesn’t fit the whole. There are better in this genre.
Really, Atomic Love, is just an awkward drawn out romance novel — why I didn’t get this from the somewhat kitschy title, I don’t know. For being loosely based on the sole female scientist on the Manhattan Project, Rosalind is a very passive floundering character who drifts between the whims of her controlling sister and the love triangle she finds herself in. Love triangles are never my thing to begin with but what makes this one especially worse is that it is extremely challenging to like one of the men, and I could never understand why this intelligent woman would even give him the light of day.
Melodramatic and somewhat frustrating, when the spy part actually comes to play near the end of the book it is rushed and underplayed in exchange for a sentimental ending that somehow doesn’t fit the whole. There are better in this genre.
basten30's review
emotional
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
I loved this book! The ending was a tad disappointing. I get where the author was trying to go with it, but it fell flat in my opinion.
farahsarish's review
5.0
One of my favorite novels of 2020! This book was hard to put down. Layered characters, fast-paced plot, and intriguing story.
serinde4books's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed this book...right up until the last chapter. I don’t like the final statements on where the characters ended up. If she had ended it one chapter sooner it would have been a 5 star read for me.
*I received this book as an Advanced Reader's Copy (ARC) through NetGalley. I received this copy free in exchange for my honest review.*
*I received this book as an Advanced Reader's Copy (ARC) through NetGalley. I received this copy free in exchange for my honest review.*
bsmith27's review
5.0
I really love this novel. It is set in the 19 50s in chicago. the main character is a former scientist who worked on the Manhattan project. she became disillusioned with science after the bomb droppings. She lives in a nice apartment and works at Marshall fields. Her sister basically raised her and is going through a troubled time with her husband. She is contacted by the FBI to spy on her former boyfriend weaver. She decides to do it and sort of falls back in love with weaver. She discovers that Weaver gave secrets to the Communists and Soviet Union and help them develop their own bomb but Weaver's dining of cancer and she tries to come to grips with that. She also falls in love with the FBI agent who is helping her. In the end weavers killed by his wife who is a Soviet asset.
auerm's review
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
bailey's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes