Book log 29/2016: Jodi Taylor: Just one Damn Thing After Another - Chronicles of St Mary’s #1

Maddie 'Max' Maxwell PhD is inaugurated into St Mary's Institute of Historical research which uses time travel to grub out the facts of history. Dark, exciting and hilarious in turn, this is a real page turner and yet delivers some real laugh-out-loud moments. Max is the product of a bad upbringing, saved only by the right teacher at the right time. Now that same teacher (retired) points her at St Mary's.

The institution is chaotic and dangerous. Eccentric hardly begins to cover it. Some of the staff are just plain bonkers, but in a useful way. Historians lose their lives or end up injured in a variety of ingenious ways, but somehow they keep functioning. Max survives her initial training, gets promoted to 'historian' and is attracted to tech Chief Farrell. Great! She's in business!

But someone is messing with the timelines, using history for pleasure and profit. On a trip to the Cretaceous to study dinosaurs everything comes to a head and Max must cope!

This book's a lot of fun and highly recommended. I immediately went out and got the second in the series.