A review by mllejoyeuxnoel
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

4.0

This story was both fascinating and heartbreaking, but that’s all that is earning it four whole stars here. It’s worth reading to learn what these women suffered, but I have to say I was often distracted by the clumsy, awkward writing. As a lawyer, I was especially annoyed reading some of the author’s characterizations of legal proceedings. (FTR, “hostile witness” is a term of art and not an attorney’s personal judgment about a witness’ behavior. Rolled my eyes pretty hard at that one.) The tale itself is an extremely dramatic one, but there were so many moments where the drama was contrived. The facts spoke for themselves; we didn’t need so many italicized and offset sentences.

But anyway - as I said, I’d still recommend this one, to women especially. This history is important.