It feels a little icky not rating this book five stars. This is a story that everyone should hear but I don’t think Kate Moore was the right person to tell it.  Moore had the opportunity to highlight the systemic failures that led to these womens’ HORRIFIC suffering and deaths but dropped the ball. Instead, Moore offered a chronological accounting of each woman’s illness and death. Stylistically she took a narrative approach that bordered on melodramatic. We were told of every woman’s suffering in detail and it got to the point where it felt tedious and repetitive to read about yet another woman’s jawbone falling out while she was still alive. That’s a pretty wild sentence to type. But I read articles about the Radium girls that nearly brought me to tears while this book felt like something to be endured. I wish Moore had found a way to write this story in a more compelling way. My god, it shouldn’t have been hard given the facts.