The author explains at the end that she wanted to write this to tell the stories of the girls, not the people fighting for them or the companies. It was very informative and had a lot of details. Too much detail, though.

A lot of things could have been cut out. Descriptions on how every girl looked (pretty, beautiful, etc) really just slogged the book down. It dragged on and I was tempted to just give up on it, but I wanted to know the stories and how everything ended.

I didn't know anything about the radium girls and what they went through. Definitely learned a lot. With trying to tell the girls' stories, she just put too much detailing in and it made it difficult to get through.