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A review by thepessimisticreader
The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
2.0
The Atomic City Girls wasn't anything special.
It wasn't terrible. It was far from great.
I kept waiting for something to happen, and then when it inevitably happened... it really felt like it hadn't happened at all. It was incredibly slow paced, and absolutely dull.
How do you take an event like dropping an atomic bomb on two cities sound boring? How do you make it about a half-developed love story between a scientist and an "atomic city girl?"
The potential that this book had blows my mind, but unfortunately, it was squandered.
The narrative follows four people, two "atomic girls" and two men. I would have liked to see just one perspective. One of the perspectives, Joe, a construction worker (I think) is almost completely unimportant to the progression of the story, because the crescendo involves him overhearing a big secret and THAT IS ALL. He did not need to be a main personality. His best friend dies and it's as simple as "yeah he was stabbed" and then emotions. All of the narratives were handled badly, but poor Joe got the worst of it.
Sam the Scientist was insufferable. Cici and June were the most fleshed out characters, but not enough to redeem the entire book.
There is a tiny bit of science thrown in that makes sense (I'm not a scientist) and that was the most interesting part. Four throwaway sentences of science was the highlight. I'm not joking.
I would not recommend it because I was so disappointed.
It wasn't terrible. It was far from great.
I kept waiting for something to happen, and then when it inevitably happened... it really felt like it hadn't happened at all. It was incredibly slow paced, and absolutely dull.
How do you take an event like dropping an atomic bomb on two cities sound boring? How do you make it about a half-developed love story between a scientist and an "atomic city girl?"
The potential that this book had blows my mind, but unfortunately, it was squandered.
The narrative follows four people, two "atomic girls" and two men. I would have liked to see just one perspective. One of the perspectives, Joe, a construction worker (I think) is almost completely unimportant to the progression of the story, because the crescendo involves him overhearing a big secret and THAT IS ALL. He did not need to be a main personality. His best friend dies and it's as simple as "yeah he was stabbed" and then emotions. All of the narratives were handled badly, but poor Joe got the worst of it.
Sam the Scientist was insufferable. Cici and June were the most fleshed out characters, but not enough to redeem the entire book.
There is a tiny bit of science thrown in that makes sense (I'm not a scientist) and that was the most interesting part. Four throwaway sentences of science was the highlight. I'm not joking.
I would not recommend it because I was so disappointed.