weweresotired 's review for:

Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum
3.0

Time travel books go wrong when they try to explain the way the time travel works. Just handwave it like the rest of us and move along. The writing is flat and all of the characters talk the same and are very difficult to like. Yes, people are flawed but no one here seemed to exhibit any self awareness about their own role in the pain surrounding them. It’s a book led by women, about Chernobyl, and time travel — all things that should have been up my alley but I was mostly underwhelmed.