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Apr 25, 2019RandomLibrarian rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
It's interesting to read about the life of Hedy Lamarr. From her early days as a stage actress to her glamorous (yet unhappy) marriage to a rich munitions manufacturer to her Hollywood success and secret life as an inventor, Lamarr was not "just a pretty face". I would have liked to see more focus on her life after inventing the frequency switching method; the ending was so abrupt and I feel like we missed out on a lot of things she did past the early months of 1942. The story is compelling, easy to read, and engrossing; you can pair this novel with the non-fiction account "Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World" by Richard Rhodes.