Book Log 34/2016 - Jodi Taylor: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Chronicles of St Mary’s #6

[jacey]

The sixth St Mary’s novel – only one more to go before I’ve caught up with all of them – and they’re still not getting old. After the incidents in No Time Like The Past, Max is on light duties for six months while she fully recovers from various injuries, so she swaps departments with Petersen and takes on the mantle of head of training. It should be easy because there are no trainees… until there are, and Max has to not only devise a new training programme but keep her unruly charges under control, preferably without killing or injuring them. If that’s supposed to be light duties I’d hate to see what she’d end up doing on normal duties. She has five students, some of them almost as bolshy as she was herself, but it turns out to be the quiet ones you have to watch. From the Valley of the Kings, the burning of Joan of Arc, a meeting with Herodotus and the opening of the Clifton Suspension Bridge to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Max has to protect the timeline and if that means making some harsh decisions, she knows she’ll have to do it. If she doesn’t History will. I’ve enjoyed all the St Mary’s books. After No Time Like the Past, which was episodic, this one returns to form.