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Max went to war with the Time Police in the last book, and Dr Bairstow had to restrain her when they left, all to find that Matthew was with Leon, after the Time Police tried to keep him!

The Time Police are very much people who aren’t allowed at St Mary’s anymore!

Dr Bairstow sends Max, Leon and Matthew off to do what should be a light, easy, uncomplicated job, but because they’re St Mary’s, you know it’s going to be more than that!

The Markham and Hunter hilarity has been going on for a while – are they married or was that a slip of the tongue for Matthew?  Also, Hunter is very pregnant!

I do wish these people would talk to each other, some times, and that’s not just Max and Leon!

Plan for the Worst was published on 16th April 2020 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

The Long and The Short of It – short stories 

An Argumentation of Historians – book 9

Hope for the Best – book 10

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Long Story Short by Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St Mary’s short stories for books 8-10) gives us stories like what happened at Battersea Barricades, and the war that ended because of it.  I’m still not sure what’s happening in America, but that might come out somewhere else!

Some of the stories are very short, and some are more novella length, and I enjoyed the differences.  The novellas added more to the overall story, whereas one story that was very short (Desiccated Water) was just more about the madness that is St Mary’s!

These stories are really only for you if you’re reading the St Mary’s Chronicles, which I hope my enjoyment of them has encouraged you to do!

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

The Long and The Short of It – short stories 

An Argumentation of Historians – book 9

Hope for the Best – book 10

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

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In Hope for the Best by Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St Mary’s book 10), with Matthew living with the Time Police, as they’ve offered to educate him.  Max is going to work for the Time Police, so she can be near Matthew.  Captain Matthew is Matthew’s person at the Time Police, and they’ve been getting on well.

But you know it’s not going to be smooth sailing!  There’s still Clive Ronan out there somewhere, Max isn’t certain at her position in the Time Police, and wants to be sure Matthew is happy.  Oh, and missing everyone back at St Mary’s!

Another good book in a series that I’m really enjoying for what it tells me about history, as well as the colourful characters!

Hope for the Best was published on 25th April 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

The Long and The Short of It – short stories 

An Argumentation of Historians – book 9

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

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An Argumentation of Historians by Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St Mary’s book 9) has Max having had enough of Ronan and coming up with a cunning plan!  After he stole Matthew as a baby in the previous book, and killed Helen, and with Leon hunting for him, and returning with Matthew aged 8, he has it coming!

Matthew doesn’t like women because of his last owners, Max feels very redundant, and so this plan is the thing that keeps her going.

The problem with Ronan is one that seems difficult to solve.  The previous book was one of hideous waiting, and this one has Max trying to take control of things.  

This is the only book series I’ve read which has ongoing time travel, and I have been interested in the big bad vs monster of the week that these books have.

An Argumentation of Historians was published on 10th April 2018, 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

The Long and The Short of It – short stories 

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

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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.