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A review by loreleimoxon
The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
1.5
Let me just give you a framework that summarizes at least 75% of this book. “Sometimes we did nothing. Or we did something. Or we thought of doing something but didn’t end up doing it.” You can come to your own conclusions on how entertaining that is to read over and over again for 230 pages.
I’m honestly impressed with how many ways the author was able to say “yeah these women didn’t know what tf was going on, how frustrating.” The weird group perspective this was written from didn’t really help expand on the logical assumptions that I could have made before reading this book about what it would be like as a wife of a scientist on a secret military base.
Also for a book that asserts itself as well researched and based in reality, the author probably should have known that there was not a queen on the throne of England until like 1953, so her British characters should probably not be toasting to the queen.
I’m honestly impressed with how many ways the author was able to say “yeah these women didn’t know what tf was going on, how frustrating.” The weird group perspective this was written from didn’t really help expand on the logical assumptions that I could have made before reading this book about what it would be like as a wife of a scientist on a secret military base.
Also for a book that asserts itself as well researched and based in reality, the author probably should have known that there was not a queen on the throne of England until like 1953, so her British characters should probably not be toasting to the queen.