She was dry and sarcastic and I love that. Her sense of humour was very English which I very much enjoyed. Max is a very good protagonist and I liked her a lot. The strength of the novel really does lie with the characters. Mary’s parts but there was just something really lacking from the first book.
For one thing, there didn’t seem to be as much history as promised and what we did get was in rather vague detail. I’m not quite sure what I was expecting from Just One Damned Thing After Another but it isn’t what I got. Mary’s go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake. Mary’s (too often by the very seat of their pants) and thwarting time-travelling terrorists, all the while leaving plenty of time for tea.įrom eleventh-century London to World War I, from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria, one thing is for sure: wherever the historians at St. Markham, and many more-as they travel through time, saving St. Mary’s tells the chaotic adventures of Max and her compatriots-Director Bairstow, Leon “Chief” Farrell, Mr. But, as new recruit Madeleine Maxwell soon discovers, it’s not only history they’re often fighting. Mary’s is that one wrong move and history will fight back-sometimes in particularly nasty ways. The first thing you learn on the job at St.
Just don’t call it “time travel”-these historians “investigate major historical events in contemporary time.” And they aren’t your harmless eccentrics either a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. “History is just one damned thing after another.” -Arnold Toynbeeīehind the seemingly innocuous facade of St.
Summary: The first book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea. Just One Damned Thing After Another has been on my to read list for a few months now but I’ve been waiting to pick it up so it could fill the J portion of my A-Z Library Challenge since J seems to be quite a hard letter to fill using only books from my local library. Challenge(s): A-Z Library Challenge, New Author Challenge
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