Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book One by Jodi Taylor

19 reviews

queerloras's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

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

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

styxx's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

cj13's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol

Minor: Car accident, Pandemic/Epidemic

andloveistoolong's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Sexual assault, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Excrement, Pregnancy, War

sassyshark's review against another edition

2.5

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

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Ableism, Abortion

lucyselim's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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

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

sallysimply's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous

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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: Death, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

Moderate: Grief

tnociti's review against another edition

4.5

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

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

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Content Warnings

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