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unsuccessfulbookclub's review
challenging
emotional
informative
slow-paced
5.0
I have never even considered what happens in a nuclear reactor nor had I thought much about Soviet politics or the Chernobyl disaster and | feel like | have taken a well-taught graduate level course on all of those things now. This book was riveting. I listened to quite a bit of it - the audio had a wonderful narrator (Jacques Roy)
If you like apocalyptic science fiction, you will like this.
Higginbotham puts so much humanity in the story of atomic disaster and political maneuvering giving this beefy nonfiction intense plot points to pull you through the story.
Higginbotham puts so much humanity in the story of atomic disaster and political maneuvering giving this beefy nonfiction intense plot points to pull you through the story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Chronic illness, Suicide, Cancer, Medical content, and Suicide attempt
namsmommy09's review against another edition
3.5
This is the story of the accident in Chernobyl. It tells the story, in depth, from multiple points of view. I enjoyed that it shared the position of the country at the time. Its hard to imagine the Soviet Union when you've never been in a situation like that, this helped me understand why it was such a big deal. Would things have changed if the Union had been more transparent about the accident in the first place? Also appreciated the after that had details about the "main characters" and what happened to them.