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And the Rest Is History by Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St Mary’s book 8) has Max, Leon and baby Matthew working out life together!

Max gave birth to Matthew at the end of the last book.  Ronan kidnapped her, the Time Police rescued her, but Matthew was born in the flux of time travel.  Captain Matthew of the Time Police promises to keep quiet about that.

I’ve enjoyed the addition of the Time Police to the series, and have found them to be interesting in term of plot device, but also they have added new characters, like Captain Matthew.  The idea of the time stream being policed isn’t a new one, but they come with some fancy upgrades that are useful, or annoying, at certain points!  I’m planning to read the Time Police books when I finish this series!

This book was a page turner, and I was on the edge of my seat about how it was all going to turn out.  

And the Rest Is History was published on 13th April 2017, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can read my reviews of the other books in the series below:

Just One Damned Thing After Another – book 1

A Symphony of Echoes – book 2

A Second Chance – book 3

A Trail Through Time – book 4

No Time Like the Past – book 5

What Could Possibly Go Wrong – book 6

Lies, Damned Lies and History – book 7

You can follow Jodi Taylor on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and her website.

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The Long and Short Of It by Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St Mary’s) is a collection of short stories from between the main books.

These stories add to the overall story of St Mary’s.  The stories cover things like how Dr Bairstow gets the funding for St Mary’s, and Jodi Taylor writes a Christmas short story every year, when the crew goes on some kind of crazy trip!  

I’ve read some short stories by authors, to go between books that I have found haven’t added anything at all, but I feel like each of these does, and there are references to them, in passing, in the main books.

The Long and Short Of It was published on 11th July 2019, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can read my reviews of the other books in the series below:

Just One Damned Thing After Another – book 1

A Symphony of Echoes – book 2

A Second Chance – book 3

A Trail Through Time – book 4

No Time Like the Past – book 5

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? – book 6

Lies, Damned Lies and History – book 7

And The Rest Is History – book 8

You can follow Jodi Taylor on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and her website.

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Lies, Damned Lies and History by Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St Mary’s book 7) has Max pregnant.  She found out at the end of the last book.  She is also trying to do the right thing, and that goes so horribly wrong that people resign.  And we find all of that out in the first few pages of the book!  The rest of the book is about what on earth happened!

I’ve not written much in these reviews about the recurring villain, Clive Ronan.  He’s a time traveller who is from the future, and was a colleague of Dr Bairstow.  They were team members, along with a woman called Annie.  When Annie became ill, Clive broke protocol, and Annie died in the cross fire.  Clive blames Dr Bairstow, and has tried to get revenge, except Max keeps getting in the way.  He is killed early in the book series in the other timeline, but as time in the books isn’t chronolocial for him, he keeps popping up.

I though this was a clever thing to do, and means each time you don’t know if he’s going to re-appear.

I’ve been enjoying these books, and find them fast paced. There are some inconsistencies, but they haven’t ruined anything for me, or taken me out of the story.

Lies, Damned Lies and History was published on 19th May 2016, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can read my reviews of the other books in the series below:

Just One Damned Thing After Another – book 1

A Symphony of Echoes – book 2

A Second Chance – book 3

A Trail Through Time – book 4

No Time Like the Past – book 5

What Could Possibly Go Wrong – book 6

You can follow Jodi Taylor on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and her website.

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? by Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St Mary’s book 6) has Max unleashed to train new historians.

Max and Leon have gotten married, and because Max was hurt in the last book, she’s swapped with Tim to become Chief Training Officer, since there’s no one to train, and she can recover.  This lasts until 5 trainees arrive, and they put Max through her paces!

Max has ideas about how to change the training program, and Dr Bairstow gives his blessing, and that’s the beginning of the chaos of this book!

Max is in a different role to her normal one, since historians know how everything works, and their place in it.  Trainees just have a lot of questions, and enough interest about ‘what happens if they’… about everything that not even Markham has the same level of crazy making on Max.

I thought this was a good way to add characters to the series, with very different attitudes, and the culture and personality clashes that comes from a group of strangers who need to work closely together.

What could Possibly Go Wrong? was published on 20th August 2015, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can read my reviews of the other books in the series below:

Just One Damned Thing After Another – book 1

A Symphony of Echoes – book 2

A Second Chance – book 3

A Trail Through Time – book 4

No Time Like the Past – book 5

You can follow Jodi Taylor on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and her website.

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A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St Mary’s book 4) has a lot of change in it, after all, in the last book, Max and Leon argued yet again, split up, and then he died.  But it’s ok, because the Muse of History has moved a dying Max into another universe where she’s no longer dying.  And Leon is alive!  Now she just needs to explain what’s happened, and learn what’s going on in this universe!

This is a lot of change, with this Leon having lost his Max, and Max having lost her Leon, and her friends.  I felt the changing of universe was a little out there, but I’m enjoying this series, and therefore I’m willing to overlook some of these oddities!

A Trail Through Time was published on 24th July 2014, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can read my reviews of the other books in the series below:

Just One Damned Thing After Another – book 1

A Symphony of Echoes – book 2

A Second Chance – book 3

You can follow Jodi Taylor on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and her website.

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A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St Mary’s book 3) continues, with Max needing to work out what to do with an entire department of blue people!

Max and Leon had a big falling out in the last book, but they made it up when they realised it was the doctor at the institution they were relaxing in who was trying to separate them.  It was all a bit weird!

Anyway, they’ve solved that and saved the day.  But now there’s more trouble at St Mary’s, so it’s time to sort things out!

I’ve really enjoyed these romps through time!

A Second Chance was published on 11th February 2014 and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can read my reviews of the other books in the series below:

Just One Damned Thing After Another – book 1

A Symphony of Echoes – book 2

You can follow Jodi Taylor on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and her website.