Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

9 reviews

mandriol's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• 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

2.75

This was not a great book unless you know that going in. It’s  a fun book to read if you want wild and crazy things happening with no explanation or buildup. A lot of stuff didn’t make sense but it was fun at a certain point giving up trying to understand the Swiss cheese plot and leaning into the drama. Oh and it’s very very very British.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Child death

queerloras's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Violence, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Animal death, Grief, Sexual assault, Child death, and Medical trauma

jenlovesbooksandcoffee's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Child death, and Murder

hedgielib's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death

sapphicsoilscientist's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.75

It was okay. I came across it to find something similar to Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. The idea is similar, but the execution is very different. It was difficult to keep all the characters straight (I still don't know if the MC is actually called Lucy?) I found the constant failure rather boring, and the interesting back characters were not given as much screen time as the somewhat boring (but snarky) MC. The baddies were very predictable, which was a little bit of a shame and the ending didn't make a great deal of sense. Dinosaurs were lovely. Do heed content warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Miscarriage, and Misogyny

Minor: Vomit, Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Child death

eloise__'s review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

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

adventurous tense fast-paced

• 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

I hated it. Hated how they handled abuse. The main character is bland and shit.

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Content Warnings

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

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