Match BookJust One Damned Thing After Another
Jodi Taylor
2013 · 480 pages · Science fiction
How it reads
Just One Damned Thing After Another is science fiction (time-travel adventure, specifically), and its dominant mood is funny. The humour is the point, not garnish. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in several locations, in the historical past, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are friendship, survival and family. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. At 480 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something funny
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
Maybe not if…
- you need something melancholy, dark or tense
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- science fiction
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- multiple locations
- Setting: time
- historical
- Mood / feeling
- funny
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- friendship, survival, family
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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