Jodi Taylor
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| Original Title: | Just One Damned Thing After Another |
| ISBN: | 1783751770 (ISBN13: 9781783751778) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Chronicles of St Mary's #1 |
| Characters: | Dr. Madeleine Maxwell, Leon Farrell, Dr. Edward Bairstow, Dr. Tim Peterson, Dr. Kalinda Black |
| Literary Awards: | Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger (2019) |
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"History is just one damned thing after another" - Arnold ToynbeeA madcap new slant on history that seems to be everyone's cup of tea...
Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power - especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet.
Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History. Their aim is to observe and document - to try and find the answers to many of History's unanswered questions...and not to die in the process.
But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. And, as they soon discover - it's not just History they're fighting.
Follow the catastrophe curve from eleventh-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria. For wherever Historians go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake ...
Details Of Books Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's #1)
| Title | : | Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's #1) |
| Author | : | Jodi Taylor |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 332 pages |
| Published | : | September 12th 2013 by Accent Press (first published June 1st 2013) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Time Travel. Fantasy. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Adventure |
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Ratings: 3.88 From 25444 Users | 3551 ReviewsRate Of Books Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's #1)
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At some point last year, I must have been on a kick to enter tons of Goodreads Giveaways in the hopes I'd get a bunch of free books. Included in that over-zealous moment was Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor. I tend to get lucky in terms of winning a giveaway once each month, and earlier this year, I won this book. When I received the email, I looked the book up as I couldn't remember anything about it... and for the life of me, I couldn't understand why I picked it given it's
What a surprisingly delightful Time Travel novel!I mean, if it wasn't for the great characters, and there were a ton of them, this book was still full of snark right down to the foundations. (And even sometimes under the foundations!) But even so, no one could hold a candle to Maxwell. I've never read a character so simultaneously dense about sex and love and so very, very brilliant and adaptable than her, while all the while being brainy, clumsy, and eventually able to go out and kick ass with
First person narrative. We get to know the setting together with the main protagonist, Max. A lot of names and character descriptions are dumped on the reader in the first chapter. By page eight I was hopelessly confused about who was who and looked how. A quarter into the book our main character had learned her new job (cheating and avoiding jobs you don't like are apparently acceptable behavior) and was on her first real assignment. I was mildly bored. The story unfolded through the eyes of
Usually I stay away from time travel. I've had some bad experiences with it and I tend to find it tedious. This wasn't the case with The Chronicles of St Mary's. In fact for most of the book it was a 4 star read. I liked the setting, the characters and the general idea. What brought it down a star was the ending. (view spoiler)[Mrs. Partridge (I'm not sure about the spelling as I got this through Audible) being the Muse of Time (hide spoiler)] felt like laziness on the author's part. Maybe it's
I'd give this one an easy 4* rating as I don't think I've ever read a book where quite so much happens in such a short space of time, but yet it's also truly amusing and works. I honestly think that this story is wacky, odd, funny and bizarre, and pretty much everything I hoped it would be and more!We follow a young lady, Miss Maxwell (a.k.a. Max) who is just graduating and applies for a job at a The University of Thirsk as a historian. Little does Max realise quite what she's walked into. She
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