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Just One Damned Thing After Another
by Jodi Taylor
This is a frolicking, completely non-serious, adventure. If you like the shoe "The Librarians" or possibly even Daniel O'Malley's "The Rook," you will most likely also enjoy this "woman becomes agent in Secret Society, deals with external and internal issues, discovers her own competence, and also encounters fun, fantastical stuff" book.
Max, whose specialty is the ancient world, takes a mysterious job with St Mary's (affiliated with Thirsk University) after a college mentor makes an introduction.
The interview is very mysterious, and involves copious amounts of non-disclosure agreement signing as well as progressively more eccentric and crazy personnel.
It culminates in a job offer with time-traveling historical society. But there is evil afoot, as well as some good, old fashioned bureaucratic infighting, not to mention a handsome techie guy.
Thus the adventure begins. Some editing and polishing could have smoothed over some of the awkward plot jumps, and maybe cut back some of the overgrown, rampant, educational bureaucracy jokes, as well as made some of the multitude of red-shirt subcast that often gets offed a little more stand out.
(and romantic interest at one point has a complete brain-function failure that somehow resolves itself instantly near the end of the book)
But the time travel for history and fun aspect is super-fun. Fine for some light reading entertainment. Don't go in with huge expectations of scientific time travel treatment or character development.
Max, whose specialty is the ancient world, takes a mysterious job with St Mary's (affiliated with Thirsk University) after a college mentor makes an introduction.
The interview is very mysterious, and involves copious amounts of non-disclosure agreement signing as well as progressively more eccentric and crazy personnel.
It culminates in a job offer with time-traveling historical society. But there is evil afoot, as well as some good, old fashioned bureaucratic infighting, not to mention a handsome techie guy.
Thus the adventure begins. Some editing and polishing could have smoothed over some of the awkward plot jumps, and maybe cut back some of the overgrown, rampant, educational bureaucracy jokes, as well as made some of the multitude of red-shirt subcast that often gets offed a little more stand out.
(and romantic interest at one point has a complete brain-function failure that somehow resolves itself instantly near the end of the book)
But the time travel for history and fun aspect is super-fun. Fine for some light reading entertainment. Don't go in with huge expectations of scientific time travel treatment or character development.