Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 5/11/2018 + 1031 more book reviews

Minichino has come up with what should be an interesting protagonist - a female scientist who defied her mother and made it into the field at a time when women were definitely not encouraged to do such things. And yet, I found her dull. I think Gloria's lack of self-confidence was off-putting. Written in first person POV, Gloria talks about this, but I felt like if she had enough gumption to make it into a hard science career in the 1960s, she should have been tougher. She's 55 in this book and still doesn't stand up for herself very well (wonder if Minichino has her work on this in later novels?). The character explains the science really well, and the murder motive was good, but somehow this book just didn't have any spark for me.

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