history is just one damned thing after another

Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power - especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.'History is just one damned thing after another.'īehind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Friday, January 6th, 2023 at 10:57 am and is filed under Book Reviews.

Tags: Book Recommendations, Book Reviews, Book Suggestions There’s time travel, and romance and love and betrayal, and blasters, and dinosaurs! Very entertaining and I have already put the next on my reading list. Don’t think too much about the time-travel paradoxes, that’s not the point here, and Taylor winks at them in passing. Not all the characters feel completely 3D, but most are good.

Max is a very engaging protagonist and the book is told from her POV. Taylor has done a wonderful job building this world, I can see it in my mind’s eye. As it turns out – of course – there is more danger behind St Mary’s walls than she knows. Out of each new class, only about 40% graduate, but Max is determined she’s going to be there. As the book opens, St Mary’s is pretty short on historians as there have been a number of deaths, oops…mishaps. It’s very dangerous though, there’s a wall of honor for the historicans who have lost their lives on missions.

This is a dream come true and she will do anything to be part of it. They always say that.) But Max is in, she’s hooked, no one is getting her out of there. At any rate, you can’t make changes and you can’t bring anything back. History won’t let you – should someone attempt, even inadvertently, to make a change that affects the future, history will drop a convenient rock on you. It’s understood that you can’t change the past. It turns out time travel is a real thing, and that’s what St Mary’s does. Why would that be so important? Why does a historical research university have – wait, blast doors? What’s going on? But as they walk through on the way to her interview, Mrs De Winter repeats to everyone they see that Max “hasn’t had the interview yet”. Mary’s which is dedicated to historical research. Madeline Maxwell (Max) an historian who’s more than a little prickly, not inclined to trust authority, but very smart, is recruited by her old professor to interview at St. This start is a very fun time-travel fantasy, with a minimum of technical jargon and a maximum of action-filled trips into the past.ĭr. JUST ONE DAMNED THING AFTER ANOTHER by Jodi Taylor is the first in a long series as I write this there are about 14 entries. Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor Review by Cyndi J.