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Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
13 reviews
jenlovesbooksandcoffee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Child death, and Murder
rosenau's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol
Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Gore, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Murder
shinie's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage
Minor: Animal death
styxx's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Death, Vomit, Alcohol, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Sexual content, Gore, Grief, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Sexism, and Sexual assault
jodar's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
I enjoyed the setting of English university boffinage alongside time travel and secret conspiracies. A nice touch of light humour throughout; it’s hard not to smile, for instance, at tactical preparations that include, as essential, facilities for making tea! Several hints foreshadow that there’s more going on in the wider scheme of things than the MC can fathom, though she has suspicions. Clearly more to be revealed in later novels in the series.
The MC fits the boffin model in being incredibly smart, curious about the unexpected and a bit dim where it comes to navigating the physical environment. A bit of a “loose canon”, which adds to her appeal as well as sometimes moving the plot along. She’s also very good-looking, but this doesn’t impinge overly much, except for one pretty excruciating, drawn-out extramarital sex scene. I do like her sense of humour, all the same, for example:
He was calm and soothing and had a reasonable explanation for everything. No woman should have to put up with that. (Chapter 18)
Quibbles:
- Most significant: I’m not sure I buy into the solution to History’s preventing time travellers from affecting the timeline. It seems to me the solution (1) must include a lower limit to the alteration of events, for example no pine cone in past to rot would have (very small) ecological effects and (2) still alters the timeline further down the track.
- 391 AD (in Chapter 16) historians would write as AD 391, or more likely these days as 391 CE; likewise BCE rather than BC.
- In the same chapter, Dr Dowson states that camel dung would be plentiful in Egypt at the time. This is unlikely, as camels only became common several centuries later, after the Islamic conquest, when better adapted camels were introduced to the country.
At this point I’m not quite sure how I feel about this, but there is a surprising amount of violence, mayhem and vicious nastiness for an apparently lighter sort of novel.
Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Alcohol and Miscarriage
readingelli's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
eloise__'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.0
Graphic: Death, Sexual harassment, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Blood, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Miscarriage, Vomit, and Child death
andloveistoolong's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Murder, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Alcohol, Blood, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Sexual violence, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: War, Child death, Pregnancy, Excrement, Infidelity, and Terminal illness
ylba's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual assault, Mass/school shootings, Abortion, Alcohol, Child death, Death, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Alcoholism, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror
loribell's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, and Sexual assault