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Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

35 reviews

chelrump's review against another edition

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adventurous lighthearted mysterious 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

3.0

I enjoyed it overall. Tbh I didn’t realize I was starting a whole big series - I came into this completely blind, so the story doesn’t actually resolve since this is the first book. I enjoyed the up and down nature of the events - when I was expecting it was resolving, there was one last big push. I got lost in the sauce a bit regarding the characters, though. It’s a fairly large list of people, with only one or two distinctive qualities being given to several of them, so when some of them die off it didn’t have much of an impact.
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auscaz's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging mysterious 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

3.75

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moond4ncer's review against another edition

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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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chaos_positive's review

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I laughed so hard while making lasagna at 10pm that I woke up my sleeping roommate. it's a playful fun absolutely emotional roller-coaster that deals some gut punches then followed by British humor that makes it hard to decide if you should sit a process or giggle. 
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rosenau's review against another edition

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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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styxx's review

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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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elodiethefangirl's review

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adventurous funny 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

5.0

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jodar's review against another edition

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adventurous funny mysterious 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? No

3.5

4.25/5 stars in the silly-superficial-but-fun scale.

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.
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asinglebird's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted 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? Yes

3.5

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kialitay's review

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3.0

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