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A review by saram84
Atomic Love by Jennie Fields
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 But I enjoyed the historical content and the characters.
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 But I enjoyed the historical content and the characters.