Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
Title: Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St. Mary's #1)
Author: Jodi Taylor
Publisher: Night Shade Books 2013
Genre: Science Fiction
Pages: 336
Rating: 5/5 stars
Reading Challenges:
Meet St Mary's - a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets who hurtle their way around History.
If the whole of History lay before you, where would you go?
When Dr Madeleine Maxwell is recruited by the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research, she discovers the historians there don't just study the past - they revisit it.
But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. And Max soon discovers it's not just History she's fighting...
I reread this one for this month’s book club selection. I forgot how much I enjoyed this book and just how much happens! I think I’ve decided to reread this entire series to catch up. I know have almost every book in the series in ebook form. Let’s see what I wrote years ago:
“A friend told me I had to read this one and lent me her copy. She was right! This was such a fun adventure story. I loved the main character of Max, but all the side characters were also great. I fell right into the fun storyline in the first chapter and almost couldn't put the book down to sleep. The pace is fast and the twists and turns just keep coming. There are some pretty far out happenings, but the way this book is written, I didn't stop to shake my head at the crazy. I was fully immersed in the world. So much fun and a great needed escape from the events of the past few days. Now I need the second book.”
The Chronicles of St. Mary's:
#0.5 The Very First Damned Thing
#1 Just One Damned Thing After Another
#2 A Symphony of Echoes
#2.5 When A Child is Born
#3 A Second Chance
#3.5 Roman Holiday
#4 A Trail Through Time
#4.5 Christmas Present
#5 No Time Like the Past
#6 What Could Possibly Go Wrong
#6.5 Ships and Stings and Wedding Rings
#7 Lies, Damned Lies, and History
#7.5 The Great St. Mary's Day Out
#7.6 My Name is Markham
#7.7 Desiccated Water
#8 And the Rest is History
#8.1 Markham and the Anal Probing
#8.5 A Perfect Storm
#8.6 Christmas Past
#9 An Argumentation of Historians
#9.5 The Battersea Barricades
#9.6 The Steam Pump Jump
#9.7 And Now for Something Completely Different
#10 Hope for the Best
#10.5 When Did You Last See Your Father?
#10.6 Why is Nothing Ever Simple?
#11 Plan for the Worst
#11.1 St Mary’s and the Great Toilet Roll Crisis
#11.2 The Girl with a Pearl in Her Nose
#11.3 The Muse of History
#11.5 The Ordeal of the Haunted Room
#12 Another Time Another Place
#12.5 The Toast of Time
#13 A Catalogue of Catastrophe
Next up on the TBR pile: