Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 This is a series of nine full length books, and a whole BUNCH of novellas. Just One Damned Thing is the first book, and by necessity is setting up the rest of the series. 
 here are a bunch of moving parts here that need setting up - how does the time travel tech work? How does the team at St. Mary's work to make sure that observer interference doesn't mess up, you know, history? Taylor is pretty good at that part. She's made sure to differentiate her time-travelling historians from Willis', and there's enough structure given that the hand-wavey, "look, it works, don't worry about it," doesn't feel like a cheat. It's not clear to me, yet, how the mechanics of "history simply won't let you fuck it up" works, but I'm hopeful that'll be explored more in subsequent books. 
 There are a lot of characters to keep straight. Too many, if we're being honest. Max's love interest is called one thing for a while, then another thing, then it kinda flips back and forth. Now, I admit that I was reading this before bed (or before a nap attack), but I shouldn't have to be going, "Why is she so worried about this rando dude? Ooooooooh, because he's not actually a rando!" If there is a list of the cast of characters, reading on a Kindle makes flipping back and forth to see who fits in where kind of hard, but a dramatis personae would have been nice. 
 However, the title is good hint as to what the book is like. It's a RAPID pace, and everything happens so much, one right after another, boom, boom, boom. I wanted some breathing room, but not for me, I wanted the characters to have a break! I mean, that is the point, that things just roll downhill and there's no stopping point until events have worked themselves to a plateau. 
 If you're a fan of Connie Willis, I would suggest you give this series a try. It doesn't take itself quite so seriously, and Max as a heroine and audience surrogate is a lot of fun. It's potentially a commitment, given that there are 9 books and a bunch of novellas, but I'm looking forward to making a dent in my TBR pile to read the next book. 
 - Redheadedgirl