Just One Damned Thing After Another

from Zumbanista

A light, entertaining read and start of a time travel series. Well drawn characters and lots of fun and action along the way. Some implausible plot twists that are intriguing at the same time. Enjoyed it while reading but not a book to stay with you very long. Will probably read the second book w...

from MrsLee

St. Mary's seems like any other historical research institute on the outside, unless you look a little closer. Through the eyes of the young woman who is the main character (I can't remember her name, more about that later), we are slowly introduced to historians who don't have to theorize about ...

from AuntieClio

What a dream job for a historian! To travel back in time simply to observe what happens. Supposedly simple, and rarely just to observe. Oh what fun they have at St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, what with the intrigue, the sex, the romance, the history, the killings ... oh, and the his...

from michigantrumpet

Considered dreamy dusty readers by those captains-of-industry Econ majors or builders-of-things engineering students, we liberal arts nerds are given heroic treatment in Jodi Taylor's series, The Chronicles of St. Mary's. In this first volume, the stage is set as we meet the denizens of a most un...

from bell7

Madeleine Maxwell never had a great family life, but with a teacher's help she became a historian and success, if a bit on the unsocial side. When this teacher sends her a a letter inviting her to a unique opportunity in history at St. Mary's, she jumps at the chance... and then finds out just ho...