J.J. Green

I am really sorry I have to give this such a bad rating because it clearly seems like it is a passion project, but the author just didn't have the skills to pull any of it off.
The dialogue is wooden and stilted. There is very little logical consistency or just basic logic in general. The problems reach from telling someone a crucial secret and only afterward asking for a promise not to reveal it (which is not just a formality in this case), to reinforcements running, guns blazing, along a show more corridor towards their captured teammates who are in the process of freeing themselves. Friendly fire, anyone? This is just one of many examples of these supposedly hardened mercenaries doing things only a bloody amateur would do, and miraculously getting away with it.
There are just countless examples of situations that show clearly that the author didn't think about them critically. Furthermore, in many cases, the author just didn't do enough research, if any at all.
The driving motivation seems to have been to orchestrate cool action movie scenes, not create a coherent narrative.
And here I am sorry again because this didn't come across to me as laziness but just as ignorance and more importantly unawareness of said ignorance.
The world-building is shallow and naive and so are the characters. The book fails to explain many crucial details necessary for a lot of circumstances to make any sense but spends quite a bit of time on unnecessary details. It's not that there is far too much detail but that the priorities are just so backward in what the reader is being told. (And this is assuming that the reader is just missing information and not that these things really just don't make any sense.)
There is one word that describes this book very well. Amateurish. And I don't mean this as an insult.
It reads as if it was written by someone with very little idea of how to write a proper story let alone build a grand sci-fi setting. show less

This 140 p. book was an absolute delight to read! Green showed considerable creativity in designing her aliens, appearances that were really quite funny. I read it as I was waiting for various appointments and sometimes laughed before I caught myself, garnering a mix of curious and irritated glances from other waiting room hostages.

I received a copy of Mission Improbable from the author J.J. Green through LibraryThing. The book lived up to its billing as “a slightly silly, light-hearted space opera romp.” At first I was annoyed with the main character Carrie, since she and I share the same predilection for information/instructions in writing rather than orally and I’m not a space cadet. But as the story progressed and her kind heart and desire to help became more obvious, I warmed up to her, as did her sidekick show more Dave. Green pays homage to classic space operas by having the first alien Carrie meets be a giant bug, who just happens to share Carrie’s problem with holding down a job. The other aliens are more inventive, including sentient office supplies and what appears to be vanilla pudding. After a bad start to her first intergalactic job as a peacekeeper, Carrie does succeed in saving the day and will go on to future adventures in space. show less

Received this as e-book through LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
Be prepared to laugh your way through this sci-fi farce! Carrie is a ditz who floats through life without really paying attention. Then, at the same time that she moves into a new flat and starts a new dead-end job.....she falls into the green light in the cupboards under the sink! What follows next is another new job, a misunderstanding with a co-worker, and a whole lot of alien adventure! The book is short, and is sure to have show more several more in the series.
If you are in need of a good laugh, this is the one to keep you rolling in the aisles. show less