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Miss Maxwells kurioses Zeitarchiv by Jodi Taylor

60 reviews

sassyshark's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, War, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Medical content, Sexual assault, Rape, Stalking, Body horror, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion and Ableism

lucyselim's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I am so confused. The premise of historians and time travel sounded right up my street, which is why I gave this a go. However, I spent the first half of the book in literal agony about how bad the writing was and that the plot was not being executed fully. Ironically, I could not keep up with the jumping of time. One moment she had been at the institute a week and the next it had been years.
One of my biggest problems was the terrible writing, but also the treatment of female characters. The main character is a classic Mary Sue who has all the men at her feet despite being average at best. She immediately clashes with the other female character who also has red hair for no real reason. One of her 'friends' leaves the institute during their training and she is really upset about it, despite having never been seen speaking to her before. In short, I was ready to give up on this book. 

But sometime happened just after halfway through.

I believe it was when Leon reveals he is from the future

Suddenly the plot became interesting enough for me to want to continue. I actually even enjoyed the last 50 pages or so.

Overall, this book definitely needs some work, but having realised it is the authors first published novel, I can understand where the writing may fall down. I will be giving the next book a go, but only because my boyfriend already bought it for me. Otherwise, perhaps I would be giving this lengthy series a miss.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Grief, Medical content, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Blood, Body horror, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

jesswp's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Rape, Gun violence, Gore, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

With such an incredible set up for time travelling historians, you'd think they would think a bit further out than Europe/Mediterranean. Sure, a good chunk was in dinosaur times, but even history mentioned in passing was limited. Despite that, this was a really fun read! Super fast, fun characters, and some surprisingly realistic heavy moments. Gotta say, I liked the romance because it made sense that those characters were good for one another, BUT (present) time passed so quickly it felt super rushed. Like, yeah they'd get there eventually, but it feels a bit soon, what do you mean it's been 5 years? I'd kill for more focus on the Wardrobe department and the Research & Development team (those mad scientists are gay, change my mind). I couldn't stand that all the women had negative attributes to them (she's a bitch, she's not friendly, she's stuck up), and most of them got better developed throughout, but would it kill the author to give Max some female friends? Or at least give her and Kal more on screen friendship development. Overall, ups and downs for this whole book, but it was exciting and I own the next 3 so I'm sticking around.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death, Violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Medical content

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, and Miscarriage

sallysimply's review against another edition

adventurous

3.0

I dove into this anticipating a fun, lighthearted read and was not prepared for all the darker events, so please do check out the content warnings!

I love The Nothing Girl and enjoy Jodi Taylor's writing in general. This felt really long to me and not always engaging. I can see myself picking up another book in the series, but I'm not in any rush to do so, nor do I feel the need to go in order. I might see which ones are most beloved and keep those in mind for if/when I'd ever like to spend some more time in this world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Death, Miscarriage, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Grief

schnaucl's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I really enjoyed it.  It was witty, fun, and well written.  I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Miscarriage

tnociti's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Hilarious but not silly.  A wonderfully perfect romp.  Loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Grief, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

grace_bunty's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder, and Sexual content

christinecc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Well, the title was right. This book is really one damned thing after another.

Without going into too much detail, the first book in this Chronicles of St Mary's has a very similar setup to Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel series: a university with access to time travel for historical academia. Except in Taylor's case, time travel is a secret. A very big secret. Also the death count for historians is rather high. Make of that what you will.

It's a fun romp and delivers exactly what it promises: hijinks with occasional high stakes and emotional beats. I'm not sure I liked it enough to keep going but I can see why it would have an addictive quality. Every scene has energy, the story is never boring, and if you have a question it never lingers enough to matter. Really just a high-speed chase of a book.

Recommended for a fast read with fast comedy and a historical sci-fi adventure backdrop.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Death

jessitheblonde's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Miscarriage