Book Log 31/2016 - Jodi Taylor: A Second Chance - Chronicles of St Mary’s #3

I appear to be well and truly hooked on Ms Taylor’s St Mary’s books. This is my third-in-a-row and I’m just about to order number four.

In this outing for Max Maxwell and the disaster-magnet time-travelling historians of St Mary’s we visit Troy, both before the siege and during, take a quick trip back to the Cretaceous, get mixed up in the Battle of Agincourt, and switch between two realities following a similar timeline. Max manages to deal with an old enemy, but because this is time travel there’s nothing to say that he’s gone forever. This is a very difficult book to review without spoilers – even the book’s own blurb gives more than a clue that there will be a calamitous, event for Max, and indeed there is, but not at the end of the book. This deals with the event and the aftermath and then piles on another calamitous event that occurs at Agincourt… and resolves it in a way that’s entirely unexpected.

Did I say I was hooked on these books? Highly recommended, but read them in order.