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sadalababa's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
kyvenn's review
5.0
hands down, EASILY a five star read for me! this book didn’t have anything i didn’t like, and it ended phenomenally! Anyone who knows me, knows I’m terrible about explaining what books are about, but y’all are just going to have to trust me and check out the blurb below and me the judge yourself!
“Three brilliant women.
Two life-changing mistakes.
One chance to reset the future.
In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist, Anna Berkova, is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl’s reactor melts down. It’s the exact moment she tears through time—and it’s an accident. When she opens her eyes, she’s landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the disaster, to save Molly’s daughter Raisa, and put their family’s future on a better path.
In ‘60s Philadelphia, Molly is coming of age as an adopted refusenik. Her family is full of secrets and a past they won’t share. She finds solace in comic books, drawing her own series, Atomic Anna, and she’s determined to make it as an artist. When she meets the volatile, charismatic Viktor, their romance sets her life on a very different course.
In the ‘80s, Raisa, is a lonely teen and math prodigy, until a quiet, handsome boy moves in across the street and an odd old woman shows up claiming to be her biological grandmother. As Raisa finds new issues of Atomic Anna in unexpected places, she notices each comic challenges her to solve equations leading to one impossible conclusion: time travel. And she finally understands what she has to do.
As these remarkable women work together to prevent the greatest nuclear disaster of the 20th century, they grapple with the power their discoveries hold. Just because you can change the past, does it mean you should?”
“just because you can change the past, does it mean you should?” is a major theme through out the story, passed down to each woman as a piece of advice. If you aren’t reading this book, what are you doing??
thank you @grandcentralpub for this amazing book! i am so happy i chose it!
thank you @barenbaumrachel for writing this masterpiece!
#bookreview #atomicanna
“Three brilliant women.
Two life-changing mistakes.
One chance to reset the future.
In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist, Anna Berkova, is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl’s reactor melts down. It’s the exact moment she tears through time—and it’s an accident. When she opens her eyes, she’s landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the disaster, to save Molly’s daughter Raisa, and put their family’s future on a better path.
In ‘60s Philadelphia, Molly is coming of age as an adopted refusenik. Her family is full of secrets and a past they won’t share. She finds solace in comic books, drawing her own series, Atomic Anna, and she’s determined to make it as an artist. When she meets the volatile, charismatic Viktor, their romance sets her life on a very different course.
In the ‘80s, Raisa, is a lonely teen and math prodigy, until a quiet, handsome boy moves in across the street and an odd old woman shows up claiming to be her biological grandmother. As Raisa finds new issues of Atomic Anna in unexpected places, she notices each comic challenges her to solve equations leading to one impossible conclusion: time travel. And she finally understands what she has to do.
As these remarkable women work together to prevent the greatest nuclear disaster of the 20th century, they grapple with the power their discoveries hold. Just because you can change the past, does it mean you should?”
“just because you can change the past, does it mean you should?” is a major theme through out the story, passed down to each woman as a piece of advice. If you aren’t reading this book, what are you doing??
thank you @grandcentralpub for this amazing book! i am so happy i chose it!
thank you @barenbaumrachel for writing this masterpiece!
#bookreview #atomicanna
rpych2's review
4.0
A time travel story that centers around the Chernobyl disaster? Sounds great to me and you know, it was pretty good. The problem was that it was only pretty good because it was way longer than it needed to be. There were a lot of times in this book that the story just dragged on and felt so slow and boring. I enjoyed the family drama that was the main story of this book though, and the POVs that we followed through the story were great. My favorite was probably Raisa, but all of them were good. The time travel mechanics were a little weird but all in all this was a fun book, just not quite as fun as I thought it would be going into it.
hmcculloh's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
murdalannd's review against another edition
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
kpasson94's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
jpry01's review
5.0
I loved this book! I’m not normally a a sci fi / time travel type of person but the character development and overall plot points overtook that aspect. I was so enthralled and wanted them to achieve all of their missions! I so hope someone makes this a movie. I’d love to see this on screen.
sarahgube's review
Stuck with it longer than I normally would because it was for my book club lol. Perhaps I will have missed character development for some of my issues with it. But to me it was kind of annoying that the main characters kept blaming outside factors for their problems instead of recognizing they don’t communicate at all.
And for whatever reason the women leads just didn’t feel compelling to me. I most enjoyed moments with Lazar because he had more substance and depth dealing with disillusionment of the American Dream.
I think the story probably could’ve been shorter as well.
And for whatever reason the women leads just didn’t feel compelling to me. I most enjoyed moments with Lazar because he had more substance and depth dealing with disillusionment of the American Dream.
I think the story probably could’ve been shorter as well.
chyse's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5