A review by alexandrahughes
The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit

3.0

The book is written in a way I've never read before. It's written from the view of the group of wives at Los Alamos. So the author uses "we" or "us" and that was hard to get accustomed to. It was really annoying. I found it most annoying when the author would describe how the women felt (which happened often) and she would say things like "some of agree, some of us did not, some of us didn't say anything" (this is not a direct quote). We get it. It's a group of women so they all had varying opinions and feelings. But every time it seemed the author had to list every possible option for how the women felt or did things. I couldn't get past that. I also didn't like any of the women when they were described.

The only reason I gave the book three stars is because the authors interpretation of the Manhattan Project was interesting.