Monday, October 1, 2018

Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St. Mary’s, Book 1) by Jodi Taylor


narrated by Zara Ramm 


Fans of Connie Willis and Dr. Who, take note: here’s a madcap time-travel adventure series with just enough grit to keep the stakes high. In this universe, time travel has been invented and is kept top-secret, used only by highly-trained historians to verify historical accounts and fill in gaps in the record. At least that’s the theory. The problem is, there’s another lot out there, they’re ruthless, and they’re in it purely for the profit. And they want to wipe St. Mary’s out.

Our heroine, Max, is an historian in the same sense that Indiana Jones is an archaeologist. She’s also tough, snarky, and sadly accident-pronein fact, the rate at which disasters ensue whenever *any* of the historians travel to the past seems really alarming, even considering the delicacy and complexity inherent in that activity.

Eventually the reason becomes clear: there’s a band of rival time-travelers who are interested in nothing about time travel except the potential for profit… and for settling an old score.

This is exactly the sort of thing I would binge-watch if it were a TV series (and I wouldn’t be surprised if it became one). Thoroughly enjoyable.

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