Review by crimsonsparrow - Just One Damned Thing After Another

crimsonsparrow 's review for:

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

3.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is The Oxford Time Travel series on cocaine. The pacing goes from moderate to fast to whiplash inducing by the last 20% or so, with an added splash of noir by way of a strong but deeply flawed female protag. All this comes at the expense of character development, depth, and, perhaps, reader investment, so pick your poison.

As an audio book, it was hard to keep track of all the ancillary (but still intriguing) characters, which was a bummer. The ending also got confusing and only served to establish the book as one installment of a series. So, if you enjoyed Connie Willis at all but felt like her time travel could use a broken, noir investigator, some brief but gritty sex, a shot of amphetamines, and a great big TO BE CONTINUED, this might be the series for you.

MPAA rated R for some adult themes, language, sex. Violence is at the PG13 level.

Trigger warnings: brief but specific nonconsensual sex acts, very brief assault with intent to rape, miscarriage, brief but graphic sex scene, violent injury, references to animal cruelty, inferred child abuse, murder.

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