Much like the Tearling novels, this book isn't making any Best Of lists, but it's entertaining and worth at least one readthrough. It's a short fun read, nothing too serious. It's still a fun book though, and it was good enough to get me to go buy the second one fairly quickly. The other characters also have a tendency to feel shallow and flat - I'd be hard-pressed to describe any of them with more than one or two words (except maybe Petersen, who is probably the most rounded after Max and whose friendship with Max warms my heart). It would have been nice to get a deeper exploration of that. Max is overall well done, although there's clearly some hugely traumatic event in her past that is never explained, only occasionally alluded to. I also have mixed feelings about her use of characterization. Hell, I'd have settled just for knowing how they WORK - it's all very ambiguous with just some punching in of carefully calculated coordinates and wham, you're in eleventh century England. While I get that Jodi Taylor needs this McGuffin to make the story work, I would have appreciate at least some basic explanation of how St. The science of time travel is all handwaved and never even remotely explained. I've already mentioned the disjointed, ambling nature of the plot, but there are other things. It made me laugh out loud in several places. She has oodles of sass, and it makes the book fun to read even when you're not really sure what the story is building to. Max is irreverent, with little respect for authority, and loves to do things her own way. Fortunately, most of that commentary is hilarious or at least worthy of a chuckle. It's a first-person novel from her point of view, so everything is colored by her commentary.
The best part of this book is undoubtedly Max (her real name is Madeleine Maxwell). Suddenly there is danger from other time travelers and a sort-of political coup at St. But you're never quite sure what it's building up to until about halfway through the novel, when Max and her partner travel to the Cretaceous Period.
There's Max's initial introduction and interview, the training montage as she learns the necessary skills to work at St. The plot runs basically in short episodes, but they all thread together. It sounded similar to the Librarians or maybe a Warehouse 13 with more time travel and less artifact recovery. It promised to be very British (tea is called out specifically in the description) and there was something about saving the world from evil time travelers, etc. Mary's, which uses time travel to do historical research. The book is about a historian nicknamed Max who joins a society called St. With a title like Just One Damned Thing After Another, it's hard not to pick up the book after a long day being stressed at the office. In this case, it wasn't so much the cover as it was the title. You're not supposed to judge books by their covers, but sometimes you can't help it.
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