Atomic Love (Unabridged)
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3.4 • 7 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
"A novel of science, love, espionage, beautiful writing, and a heroine who carves a strong path in the world of men. As far as I'm concerned there is nothing left to want."--Ann Patchett, author The Dutch House
"A highly-charged love story that reveals the dangerous energy at the heart of every real connection...Riveting."--Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing
Love. Desire. Betrayal. Her choice could save a nation.
Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life.
Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special Agent Charlie Szydlo wants Roz to spy on Weaver, whom the FBI suspects of passing nuclear secrets to the enemy. Roz helped to develop these secrets and knows better than anyone the devastating power such knowledge holds. But can she spy on a man she still loves, despite her better instincts? At the same time, something about Charlie draws her in. He's a former prisoner of war haunted by his past, just as her past haunts her.
As Rosalind's feelings for each man deepen, so too does the danger she finds herself in. She will have to choose: the man who taught her how to love . . . or the man her love might save?
Customer Reviews
Sappy. Poorly written. Painfully narrated.
I got the book because it sounded like a cool premise and Ann Patchett, who is one of my favorite authors, said it was great. I stuck with it through chapters of painfully cliche and sappy bad writing for the same reason. I figured she knew something I didn’t. But eventually, not even the sunken cost fallacy could hold me any longer and I had to stop. I was listening to the audiobook, so maybe it was just the narrator’s HORRENDOUS attempt at a British accent —truly cringeworthy— that made it unlistenable. Maybe it was her overall sappy delivery. But I couldn’t even bring myself to finish it. I quit about 90% of the way through the book. I gave 2 and not one star because the premise is interesting. But it really is surprising how un engaging this book manages to be with such a fascinating premise.
Please do. Not bother.
I can only assume that the Ann Patchett who endorsed this book is either not the famous author and some rando they got to give a quote because she has the same name, or that she and the author are friends. This is not a good book.