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Some Assembly Required: A Jane Bond Publisher's Pack: Jane Bond, Books 1-2
Contains books one and two of the humorous sci-fi Jane Bond series.
Some Assembly Required, book one
An alien pilot. A chocolate cake. A doomed relationship or two.
Jane’s life as an elementary school librarian gets sidetracked when she digs up the AI pilot of a 140-million-year-old spacecraft. Now, she’s running all over the world looking for spaceship parts, falling in and out of love, and trying to keep her friends from thinking she’s crazy. To make matters worse, the ship she’s recovering is starting to sound a bit more like the Death Star than the Millennium Falcon. When did life get so complicated?
Dark Side of the Moon, book two
Fully stocked spaceship garage - check. Fully prepped spaceship - check. Fully trained...and ready to pilot? Jane’s got her own spaceship, but she has no idea how to even get it out of the garage, let alone fly it. No worries, everything’s under control - meet Olive, Jane’s new pilot!
Jane finds some very interesting things in the basement left behind when Kit went away. Among them is a fully operational space ship. After an almost shattering start, Jane and her friends are globetrotting again, with the addition of Olive to pilot the ship - and make pancakes. Olive isn’t a real person, but she’s working hard at becoming one - and learning how to make pancakes and waffles along the way. But will pancakes be enough to deal with Jane’s mom and whatever lies on the dark side of the moon?
Some Assembly Required, book one
An alien pilot. A chocolate cake. A doomed relationship or two.
Jane’s life as an elementary school librarian gets sidetracked when she digs up the AI pilot of a 140-million-year-old spacecraft. Now, she’s running all over the world looking for spaceship parts, falling in and out of love, and trying to keep her friends from thinking she’s crazy. To make matters worse, the ship she’s recovering is starting to sound a bit more like the Death Star than the Millennium Falcon. When did life get so complicated?
Dark Side of the Moon, book two
Fully stocked spaceship garage - check. Fully prepped spaceship - check. Fully trained...and ready to pilot? Jane’s got her own spaceship, but she has no idea how to even get it out of the garage, let alone fly it. No worries, everything’s under control - meet Olive, Jane’s new pilot!
Jane finds some very interesting things in the basement left behind when Kit went away. Among them is a fully operational space ship. After an almost shattering start, Jane and her friends are globetrotting again, with the addition of Olive to pilot the ship - and make pancakes. Olive isn’t a real person, but she’s working hard at becoming one - and learning how to make pancakes and waffles along the way. But will pancakes be enough to deal with Jane’s mom and whatever lies on the dark side of the moon?
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Published December 15, 2020
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V.R. Tapscott
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October 28, 2025
The first novel in this publisher's pack was entertaining 'Popcorn' in the best possible way. And although the ending was abrupt to say the least, as if the author suddenly realised that she was reaching the word limit and had one of her characters peace out like Poochie from "The Simpsons," I was still emotionally satisfied enough to wonder why she'd bother to write a second novel at all.
Indeed, I naturally assumed that the Deus Ex AI who appeared at the end of the first novel must obviously be the main villain who Jane would be fighting in the sequel to save her friend. Because 47 years of tropes and cliches have taught me that the character who claims to be acting in your best interests because your best friend is 'Sick' is inevitably the 'Third Act Twist Villain.' But nope, everything appeared to be on the up and up. And in terms of plot, the second novel has almost no connection to the first; like the opening episode of a TV series which is set in the world that was created in the pilot, but is now the beginning of a separate and largely unconnected story in which one of the main roles has been recast for whatever reason.
So far in fact, the second novel has consisted almost entirely of introducing that replacement character and Jane & Bailey building their new PI business from scratch; including whole chapters devoted to building and decorating a suitable office space and shopping for furniture and supplies. And although a bit-part-character from the first novel will now apparently be dropping by for whatever reasons, I've completely lost all interest in this story and don't care enough to bother finishing it.
Indeed, I naturally assumed that the Deus Ex AI who appeared at the end of the first novel must obviously be the main villain who Jane would be fighting in the sequel to save her friend. Because 47 years of tropes and cliches have taught me that the character who claims to be acting in your best interests because your best friend is 'Sick' is inevitably the 'Third Act Twist Villain.' But nope, everything appeared to be on the up and up. And in terms of plot, the second novel has almost no connection to the first; like the opening episode of a TV series which is set in the world that was created in the pilot, but is now the beginning of a separate and largely unconnected story in which one of the main roles has been recast for whatever reason.
So far in fact, the second novel has consisted almost entirely of introducing that replacement character and Jane & Bailey building their new PI business from scratch; including whole chapters devoted to building and decorating a suitable office space and shopping for furniture and supplies. And although a bit-part-character from the first novel will now apparently be dropping by for whatever reasons, I've completely lost all interest in this story and don't care enough to bother finishing it.
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