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Amber Gordon 𝚁𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Okay I’ll be honest this book was almost a DNF for me. I pushed through hoping it would get better and bam right around Chapter 8 is when it started getting the explosiveness I was craving. I gave it 4 stars only because of the slow start. This story centers itself around Rosalind Porter, a young lady in her 30s who is extremely miserable and guilt stricken over her role as a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. So guilt stricken sometimes she can’t even do her day to day tasks. The story unfolds when Rosalind realizes she’s being followed by someone. Her best friend Zeke and her give him a nickname of “shadow man”. This is when we learn of her romantic entanglement with her colleague Thomas Weaver which ultimately leads to some serious heartbreak for Rosalind. Shadow man has a name, we figure this out when Rosalind confronts him and asks him why she is being followed. We learn that his name is Charlie Szydlo, a FBI agent assigned to obtain as much intel as possible on Thomas Weaver but to do this it means convincing Rosalind to rekindle a relationship with her former lover and colleague Weaver. This unearths many feelings Rosalind needed to face about Weaver and changes everything she thought she knew about not only her past, but about Weaver and also changes her mind about opening her heart again to love. It was hard for me to connect with Rosalind, I found myself more intrigued with Charlie Szydlo, a Japanese POW turned FBI agent. His story really drew me in and broke my heart. His struggles with PTSD and trying to feel normal in a world after the war really made me feel incredibly bad for the guy. Overall this is a story of three people deeply wounded mentally and some physically by World War II and their doings in it, a story of how they come to heal each other in the most unexpected ways. If you like detailed and descriptive writings and romance novels centered around a historical time period give the book a read. www.instagram.com/ambersbooksandcoffee
@shhhhh.imreading I may or may not have gone overboard at Target today. 😅 The Black Phone, by Joe Hill (originally published as “20th Century Ghosts” and soon to be a major motion picture) Atomic Love, by Jennie Fields Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, by Quentin Tarantino (complete with a section of full color photos!) #bookstack #bookstagram #targetrun #booksof2022📚
Atomic Love - Target Exclusive Edition by Jennie Fields (Paperback)
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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 of The Dutch House
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 has almost resigned herself to a conventional life.
Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Agent Charlie Szydlo wants Roz to spy on Weaver, whom the FBI suspects of passing nuclear secrets to Russia. Despite her better instincts, Roz has never stopped loving Weaver, but something about Charlie, a former prisoner of war haunted by his past, calls out to 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?
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Jennie Fields received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is the author of the novels Lily Beach, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, The Middle Ages, and The Age of Desire. A Chicago native, Fields was inspired by her own mother's work as a University of Chicago-trained biochemist in the 1950s. Fields now lives with her husband in Nashville, Tennessee.
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