Book Log 36/2016 - Jodi Taylor: Lies, Damn Lies and History - Chronicles of St Mary’s

If you’ve been following my booklogs you’ll realise that I’ve read all seven of the St Mary’s books in the space of just over a week, plus the five available short stories. To say I’ve enjoyed them would be an understatement. The mayhem caused by the time-travelling historians of St Mary’s, disaster magnets all, have been immensely amusing—just plain fun..

To begin with Max and her partners in crime (literally this time) Peterson and Markham are in deep trouble, having done the wrong thing for the right reasons – or maybe it was the right thing… but no one else sees it that way, It all starts when they accidentally get caught up in a battle involving (King) Arthur and spot an opportunity. Things go sour. They try to set it right and end up almost under house arrest. Regardless of her burgeoning pregnancy Max tries to make amends with another wild scheme. It would have worked out well without Max’s arch-enemy Ronan stepping in. There’s a real race against time at the end.

Whether there will be more to come after this book remains to be seen, but Ms Taylor has left some nice loose ends, although she pretty much sets Max down at the beginning of a new phase in her life. There are still plenty of opportunities for more, however. Oh, and there’s a nice little twist right at the end that made me smile. I highly recommend the whole series – but read them in order.