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Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.0
challenging emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The novel is a female character driven love story set against the backdrop of the early 1980s NASA Space Shuttle missions. If I were to break it down, I would say that it was... 

20% Space Program. 
20% Family Drama. 
60% Romance. 

The story is told in dual time with chapters flipping back and forth between present day and the recent past. It starts off with something going wrong aboard an orbiting Shuttle before flashing back several years to tell the story of everything that lead up to that Shuttle mission.

The story does take some influences from real life events that actually happened, e.g. Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols involvement in NASA to attract women to join the Space Program is used as the plot device to get the female characters into NASA.

I did feel that the ending was rushed. It absolutely needed a decent epilogue to wind the story down. The way the story ends didn't really feel right and needed a bit more warmth, which a epilogue would have provided.