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A review by onceandfuturelaura
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
I don't know if I just got in this loop of portal fantasy recommendations or what, but as I've been back filling the last 10 years of fantasy and science fiction, I keep reading these books about organizations with the ability to leave their space time coordinates and jump to other ones. Sometimes important stuff (The Future of Another Timeline, Jerusalem). Sometimes stripped down, intensely personal stories (This is How We Lose the Timewar). A LOT of ephemera. (The Invisible Library, Constance Verity). Whatever The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O was. I don't know if there was a conference, a list serve, or if genre is responding to TV, or something else entirely, but the pattern keeps repeating.
In this one, shadowy corporates are funding adventure historians to go and do stuff. Very much like The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. and a bit like the Kaiju Preservation Society. Our heroes are brave and true. But they have enemies who want to exploit history for profit. There's definitely something interesting lurking in there about our relationship to history.
The prose is quite good. The protagonist is hella overpowered, though not to Constance Verity levels. She's smart, sexy, snarky, good in a fight, and can hold her liquor. She doesn't human all that well, for which I can forgive her rather limited insight into the other characters, who come off as being rather thin. Several seem to be eviling for evil's sake, which makes me roll my eyes.
Would have been a great bus book. There is a pretty vividly and repeatedly described attempted sexual assault for those who are sensitive about such things.
In this one, shadowy corporates are funding adventure historians to go and do stuff. Very much like The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. and a bit like the Kaiju Preservation Society. Our heroes are brave and true. But they have enemies who want to exploit history for profit. There's definitely something interesting lurking in there about our relationship to history.
The prose is quite good. The protagonist is hella overpowered, though not to Constance Verity levels. She's smart, sexy, snarky, good in a fight, and can hold her liquor. She doesn't human all that well, for which I can forgive her rather limited insight into the other characters, who come off as being rather thin. Several seem to be eviling for evil's sake, which makes me roll my eyes.
Would have been a great bus book. There is a pretty vividly and repeatedly described attempted sexual assault for those who are sensitive about such things.
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual assault