The Only Woman in the Room

by Marie Benedict

[Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews]

I read The Other Einstein last year, I enjoyed the writing of the story, it was just the characters characters annoyed me and therefore I had a hard time getting into the novel. Carnegie's Maid was a complete disappointment and I actually returned it to Audible halfway through. So why listen to The Only Woman in the Room you ask? Because I loved the premise and was interesting in learning that Hedy Lamarr was more than just a pretty face. Fortunatey, the third time was a charm. I was spellbound listening to her time in Austria and the actions with her abusive husband that eventually led to her fleeing to the United States. I did find the section about Larmarr in Hollywood to be a bit tedious and repetative. I wanted to move on to the lesser know aspects of Hedy and her ambitions to be an inventor. Benedict does touch on that but not until late in the book. I really enjoyed listening to that portion and wished the author had spent more time on it. I also listened to the Afterward and found it very informative as it discussed that Hedwig Kiesler's contributions to science have been used in the development of the cell phone; proving that while she may have been the only woman in the room she was more than a pretty face.

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