Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

34 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

ltlmz's review against another edition

adventurous funny

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Gun violence

moond4ncer's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Perhaps too quickly paced for it's own good. Sometimes interesting scenes were skipped through or faded to black. A fun romp through history but more office drama due to the lack of depth in exploring any other era.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Medical content, Sexual content, War, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

xvicesx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

I enjoyed the beautiful randomness that came with this book. Following Max around was fun, mainly because she was determined to enjoy her dream job, even as it kept throwing curve balls her way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Miscarriage, and Grief

Minor: Child abuse

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

rosenau's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

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

palindromereads's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual assault

Moderate: Miscarriage

styxx's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

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

booksthatburn's review against another edition

Has a weird mix of flippancy and casual discussions of violence in a way that was off-putting.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape and Violence

mdpenguin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I had pretty much expected this to be a bit of a knockoff of Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel series. It does have a couple of the more clever conceits from it, but Taylor definitely deserves credit for making it into its own thing. That said, a lot about it fell flat for me. 

The overall story was good and there was some good adventure, but the characters were so poorly drawn and the in-story pacing wasn't clear. I'm not entirely sure how long of a period of time is covered in this book: the writing makes it feel like a year but certain lines in it suggest four or five or more. The characters, similarly, weren't clear. They'd get described as having such and such personality traits and then we'd never really see it. Mostly they were all pretty flat and sometimes they just didn't seem coherent. Sadly, that includes the protagonist and her love interest: the romance wasn't at all believable to me and even if it was, I just couldn't care because the characters were just plot devices. I'd shrug and say that it was just more plot-driven than I normally like but we're put in positions where we really are supposed to care about the characters and I just never felt it. 

Overall, it's better than fair in as far as it's an entertaining novel playing with some entertaining ideas. If it didn't strive to be any more than that and maybe ended a little earlier in the story or let people be friends instead of lovers then I'd probably have a higher regard for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, and Gun violence