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Atomic Love by Jennie Fields

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jaded618's review against another edition

4.0

What a great read!
First of all, I am not a big reader of romance novels, but this author did a great job weaving the romance into the main story without drowning the reader in it. I also loved the historical background to this story!
This was my BOTM pick and I'm so glad I went with this one. The strong female lead really helped guide the story and the espionage and intrigue was just what I needed to read before going back to work next week!

rrickman33's review against another edition

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4.0

Atomic Love sounded to me like a story about espionage and mystery but mostly ended up being a romance novel. The writing was very descriptive and lengthy and it felt slow paced even though a lot was happening in the story.

Rosalind Porter worked on the Manhattan Project during WWII developing bombs. After the war is over and she's at a mundane job she hates she is approached by the FBI to spy on her former lover. Sounds interesting right? I thought so too but the story was a little all over the place.

I found myself confused in the middle of a chapter when the past and present weren't separated very well between backstory and what was currently happening. The FBI agent, Charlie, had a very interesting backstory with a lot of character development. However, Rosalind felt stagnant and boy obsessed which felt off for a serious physicist that develops bombs as her job?

Overall, I think historical fiction fans will enjoy this story and like the setting of Chicago after WWII during the USA's conflict with Russia. I'm curious to see what others thought of the plot line and characters; as I thought both could have been done better, which would have made this book great instead of good.

309804490's review against another edition

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mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

saram84's review against another edition

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3.0

In 1950, Rosalind Porter is working in a department store in Chicago. This is a different life from five years ago when she was working as a physicist on the Manhattan Project. While working on the project, she falls in love with a colleague named Thomas Weaver. After the bomb is built and dropped Rosalind has tremendous guilt over the fact that her work has caused such destruction and loss of life. Her relationship with Weaver comes to a startling halt as well as her career as a physicist. Now, Weaver has suddenly come back into Rosalind’s life. But so has an FBI agent by the name of Charlie Szydlo. The FBI believes that Weaver is sharing secrets from his work that is benefiting the other side. Charlie asks Rosalind to continue to see the man that broke her heart and gather information to prosecute him. Rosalind begins to have conflicting feelings for both men. She struggles to understand the man that left her and humiliated her and understand the new damaged man that she can’t help but fall for.

This book is a classic love triangle of old love versus new love and trying to understand the past. The first half of the book seemed to go fast. But as the book kept going things started to slow down. I enjoyed the perspective of a female scientist in a male dominated field. I also appreciated the human side to the story of the guilt felt over the bomb. It moved too slow for me later on in the book. But I enjoyed the historical content and the characters.

tifflovesbooks80's review against another edition

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3.0

This was a solid 3.5 stars for me. I have to be honest that the only reason that I picked up this book was because it was a buddy read on Bookstagram. If not for that, I probably would have passed this one by.

However, I was pleasantly surprised with this one and I really enjoyed the love triangle of spies type of plot. I was also intrigued by the premise of the only female scientist working on the Manhattan Project which I never really knew anything about.

I really think I enjoyed it overall because of the fact that I knew we would be chatting as a group on this one and that really always heightens my enjoyment of a book. :)

reindeerbandit's review against another edition

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2.0

honestly it was a decent story so it was going to be a four. however, the sex scenes were suuuuuuuper awkward, which. well, then it was a three until charlie was a pos at the end, which for the record, was v out of character for him during the rest of the book. anyway. two it is.