#jennie fields

[jrk84777]

All her life, she'd been the "smart'' girl. That line ," Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses'' wasn't about spectacles. What man wanted to be with a bookish girl?

Atomic Love, Jennie Felds

[hobbitonreviews]

📚 Atomic Love by Jennie Fields

I promise I’m not stupid, but this book was spicier than I expected from reading the back cover. It’s not super spicy, but it’s definitely present. I wasn’t a huge fan of this book, not because of the spice, but because it seemed to drag on longer than it needed to. I felt that there was a lot of stuff in the middle that could have been cut out because it didn’t help anything progress. I probably would not read this one again, but it was fine to read it once.

Rating: 5/10

[divers-wife]

She watched the men around her and was disturbed at how much they enjoyed the war, seemed stirred to life by the conflict. Marking trees, proving themselves right, defeating others. The ability to draw power from an atom: could it ever be safe in male hands?

Atomic Love by Jennie Fields

[lizabethstucker]

Atomic Love by Jennie Fields

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 Russia. 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?  (Synopsis direct from Goodreads)

I spotted this at the library and was somewhat intrigued, although I tend not to like love triangles. Yeah, the synopsis gives the browser the impression that this is romantic historical fiction with a touch of mystery. However I soon got annoyed with the whole book, skipping to the end to see how it ended. Yeah, I do that when I get suspicious about a book's classification. What I found out?THIS IS NOT A ROMANCE!!! There is no Happily Ever After because the heroine is all "I must find myself before I can commit to you, my beloved." It is more a maybe sometime in the future HEA. Look, I get that she doesn't want to be "just a housewife" and that things were tough for women in the 1950s, but I could think of so many things that she could've done. Disappointed, so disappointed.

[jenniefields-blog]

I’ve just completed a wonderful trip across the U.S., sharing my new book, “The Age of Desire.” As I traveled, I saw some of the most striking landscapes in the United States, from the sylvan beauty of Lenox, Massachusetts — where I was so thrilled to read at Edith Wharton’s home, The Mount — to the sparkling turquoise waters of La Jolla, California. I will carry those beautiful visual memories with me always.  But I also learned several more subtle and indelible truths...    

[jenniefields-blog]

The chair that started my book tour. The one in my writing room where I wrote "The Age of Desire"...

[jenniefields-blog]

It was such a thrill to read at The Mount and on the very terrace where this scene takes place. Morton Fullerton has come to visit Edith at The Mount, it's snowed, and, as all the other guests have gone to bed, they are together, alone for very the first time....

[jenniefields-blog]

What was waiting for me at my hotel in St. Louis - a plate of Edith Wharton's beloved macarons, but, even better, my own The Age of Desire cookie, far too beautiful to eat!