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A review by aotales
Atomic Love by Jennie Fields
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.