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Atomic Anna

Rachel Barenbaum

3.83 AVERAGE

emkaypee's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was a difficult rating to assign. Ultimately, I really enjoyed this story. It was truly unique and unlike anything I've ever read. The added bonus of me being married to a Soviet Jew/Russian immigrant from NE Philly made it even more exciting, I felt like I was reading the story of her family in some ways. I loved the love story between Raisa and Daniel and thought the hint of Anna's queer love was an interesting twist.

Despite the things I loved, this story was just REALLY slow. It felt like I was reading a history book at times, and it took me almost 2 weeks to finish. I just picked it up every so often and knocked out a chapter or two and mainly found myself wanting to finish it so I could be done with the story and move on to the next. There isn't really anything fundamentally wrong that I can pinpoint, I just found myself very bored and disinterested with "old Anna's" story in particular.

eloise__'s review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 12%

tbh cant be bothered

selilabude's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kradle's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

Got probably 60% of the way through and was very over it. It got repetitive and I felt like pretty basic - we get it, the youngest one likes math because it's ordered and has answers! The mother likes art because it's everything her parents didn't push her into! I expected a deeper delve into mother/daughter relationships but found it all pretty reductive.

I'm also not a huge stickler for 'realism' in sci-fi plots but the sci-fi portion also felt basic and laughable. I think Recursion did a better job of adding 'realism' to essentially the same sci-fi time-travel device.