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A review by mugglemom
The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
2.0
2 stars. Didn’t really deliver greatly on history – just wee bits are woven into a fictional story – which I think the author could have done a better job – if not woven a real person’s history from Oak Ridge into the plot. Still, it whets my appetite for more info about Oak Ridge and in the end, was an OK read. This is a coulda/shoulda book with a lot of promise but ended up being unripe fruit at the foot of the tree
What I really turned me off:
- Roughly, only 2 Atomic girls tho the book blurb talks about “hundreds of girls”. And of the two, one is a pointless mean girl character (but she was only mildly atomic-haha). Hundreds of other girls must be referencing spouses of men--spouses who had nothing to do with the Manhattan Project is my guess.
- Joe, and the other characters of color…had potential but the story didn’t even go that deep.
- Sam, again, not sure why his character failed so spectacularly who is paired in a wet noodle romance w/one of the Atomic Girls.
If anything, this could be a screenplay for a TV series – like the Canadian “Bomb Girls” and maybe that’s why it was written or inspired the author?
I won’t recommend to history-loving friends.
What I really turned me off:
- Roughly, only 2 Atomic girls tho the book blurb talks about “hundreds of girls”. And of the two, one is a pointless mean girl character (but she was only mildly atomic-haha). Hundreds of other girls must be referencing spouses of men--spouses who had nothing to do with the Manhattan Project is my guess.
- Joe, and the other characters of color…had potential but the story didn’t even go that deep.
- Sam, again, not sure why his character failed so spectacularly who is paired in a wet noodle romance w/one of the Atomic Girls.
If anything, this could be a screenplay for a TV series – like the Canadian “Bomb Girls” and maybe that’s why it was written or inspired the author?
I won’t recommend to history-loving friends.