This was a good book, but not one I’d come back to again. I came into it not knowing anything really about Hedy Lamarr other than she was an actress who also helped create our modern day Bluetooth technology. It was an interesting story, but I wasn’t consumed by it. I enjoyed the first half (pre coming to America) a lot more than the second half. The first half focused on her being Jewish in Austria leading up to WW2, her first marriage, and how she escaped. The second half felt rushed, and there was very little focus on her inventing but more on her foray into Hollywood and her struggles there. The author sort of talks about it, but largely glosses over it and rushes through it.

Mostly I came away feeling sorry for her and with a sense that being a woman in the 30’s-40’s was terrible no matter what country you were in. Definitely not a happy go lucky story, but historically interesting even though it’s largely fiction.