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Jon Taylor is on page 293 of 1223 of The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
Oh and it’s also remarkably sexist. Portrayal of women is… embarrassing. Rather too much salivating over sexy teenagers too. Good job the story rattles along…
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The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)

Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 216 of 1223 of The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
The story seems to be starting now… i can feel the page-turning need growing. Haven’t felt it for a while. Gotta love a space opera…
Apr 20, 2026 03:42AM Add a comment
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Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 135 of 1223 of The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
Falling into the old Sci-Fi cliche… interesting ideas, poorly written. The prose is clumpy, sentences which could easily be fixed left confusing which interrupts the flow of the writing. Characters are 2D archetypes. But there are so many ideas: the organic ships, the Edenist and Adamist philosophy, the anti-matter weapons! Still enjoyable…
Apr 19, 2026 03:39AM Add a comment
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Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 77 of 1223 of The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
Exciting passage involving space salvage. Great imagination and detail.
Apr 14, 2026 02:52PM Add a comment
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Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 56 of 1223 of The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
Enjoying the sentient spacecraft and the death and birth cycle of the Edenists. Fascinating and beautiful.
Apr 13, 2026 03:15PM Add a comment
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)

Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 26 of 1223 of The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
Plain prose, heavy science, fun.
Apr 12, 2026 10:31AM Add a comment
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Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 469 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
Underwhelmed by the reveal. Hamed is the boss patcher with two penises? Who appeared to be killed by Daedra? Some character we knew nothing about is behind it? Reasonably exciting climax but I’m waiting for the whole thing to click…
Apr 09, 2026 03:40PM Add a comment
The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)

Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 441 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
The jackpot - a combination of events political and economic that bring about a type of apocalypse that only the rich and powerful survive. Seems remarkably prescient…
Apr 07, 2026 02:56PM Add a comment
The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)

Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 288 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
So, this el-Habib was the patcher Daedra killed with her thumb at the start of the book, except it wasn’t him, it was a peri. And el-Habib is what? A terrorist? And what does this have to do with Daedra’s sister being murdered or who has now kidnapped Flynne? I need to start taking notes…
Apr 01, 2026 03:18PM Add a comment
The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)

Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 277 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
And suddenly, I’m a bit lost… have to remember that last time I felt like this, everything became clearer a few chapters on…
Mar 31, 2026 02:37PM Add a comment
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Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 241 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
Great imagery - in a bar resembling a downed airship…
Mar 27, 2026 03:51PM Add a comment
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Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 227 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
Lowbeer feels like a caricature, but an enjoyable one. Not convinced that Flynne would be that keen to pretend to be an artist - or that Conner would take the time jump so casually. But at least the plot’s moving along nicely.
Mar 26, 2026 03:51PM Add a comment
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Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 213 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
This is flying now. Conner in a peri’s body - made me smile for him but I fear it’s going to go wrong.
Mar 25, 2026 04:27PM Add a comment
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Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 190 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
A fusion of realities. Interesting that, in this collision, there is uncertainty about ‘reality’ from Flynn, who is uncertain if she is in the future, as she has been told, or just in a game, or VR. How would she know, for sure?
Mar 24, 2026 03:20PM Add a comment
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Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 139 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
Occurs to me that I’m enjoying the form - short, snappy chapters filled with short snappy paragraphs and sentences. Lots of dialogue so it’s pacy. Reminds me a bit of James Ellroy.
Mar 19, 2026 05:52AM Add a comment
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Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 110 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
Like the detective angle. Who is Ossian?
Mar 18, 2026 04:00PM Add a comment
The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)

Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 84 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
This is a proper thriller now. Once you get the rhythms of his prose and begin to understand the tech, things get clearer. Fascinating idea - a conversation with someone from the past but they don’t know you’re from the future.
Mar 17, 2026 04:15PM Add a comment
The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)

Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 52 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
The imagination and depth of detail in it is boggling - the Lego piece that changed shape for example. And
the murder method. Now I understand that we have 2 narratives, one happening concurrently but 70 years in the future to the other, things are beginning to clear.
Mar 12, 2026 02:17PM Add a comment
The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)

Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 42 of 485 of The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
Something’s going on. It’s very much a ‘drop you in the middle of it’ narrative. And then I find one of the narratives is happening 70 years ahead of the other. Except in that narrative they can travel back in time… some stuff about alternate reality, a war, celebrity assassins?.. hope I can make sense of it all…
Mar 11, 2026 03:35PM Add a comment
The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)

Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 366 of 667 of The Idiot
Grim, nightmare imagery of the ‘scorpion’ cracked in the dog’s mouth. Can’t grasp the metaphor yet…
Feb 28, 2026 03:48PM Add a comment
The Idiot

Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor is on page 354 of 667 of The Idiot
Wish I knew what to make of Lebedyev. The monologue about technology seems prescient. But this doesn’t fit my view of him as a scoundrel. I could be reading him wrong…
Feb 26, 2026 02:25PM Add a comment
The Idiot

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