Stacy is correct, this is a good place to stop in the series. At least for now.

I don’t know how Jodi Taylor keeps packing so much stuff into each book. I start them out thinking that it will be one long story and the next thing I know, a dozen storylines have gone by and there’s still time left for more!!!

I enjoy the series as a whole, so far. I think some books are slightly better than others, but I particularly enjoyed this one because it felt like it didn't jump from one story to the other (as previous books of this series have) but instead was one cohesive start to finish book. It made me laugh out loud several times, as they often do, and I genuinely enjoy the time I spend reading the series.
Can't wait to read the next one.

These books just go down soooo easy. And while I love the history lessons (front-row seats, no less!), the more of Leon-and-Max-as-a-couple in each book, the better. This was chock full of Leon and Max 2.0, now Lucy. I don't like the reappearance of Bitchface Barclay but villains are to be expected. On to the next!

I thought it was a brave thing that the author did in the last novel in the series. Sadly, it's all gone a bit Star Trek...

Still, I love the characters, the plots are entertaining and I find myself giggling out loud quite frequently (not so good when I'm on the train or at my desk at lunchtime!). It's going to be a heck of a shock when I run out of books in the series...

I was on the fence for this series books 1-3



On the one hand I liked all the history stuff and visiting different moments in history to see what it was really like. On the other hand the drama llama would always rear its ugly head in the relationship aspect and Max and Leon just could not get their shit together enough emotionally to have a grown up conversation for a moment. Then there were the shenanigans at the end of book 3 that I liked and hated all at the same time. It was confusing.

Well no more I liked this book so much that I’m glad I gave this series another try. Again we hurtle through history and I’m surprised by how much I enjoy the little snippets that we get to see of different times. I also am loving the new Max/Leon dynamic and change up of the bad guy situation.

Max and Leon 2.0 are so much more well adjusted and better for each other and I finally feel some of the heat/chemistry between them on a deeper level that just the sleeping together aspect. Plus they had adult conversations, some of them rather silly and fun, but the drama was never due to some stupid fight between them.

“I’m not a surgeon.’
‘You don’t have to be. You’re an engineer. That’s almost the same thing.’
‘Your ignorance is frightening.”

The new threat to St. Mary’s seems very real and getting to know the new St. Mary’s 2.0 took a little getting used to but overall it seemed like it was going to be a lot of fun.

Now this is time travel with a multiverse so I had to let some logic go. Because some of he things that have happened up to this point didn’t happen in both places but people still ended up about the same place. Did that sentence make any sense probably not, but that was half the point. I had to let go that Max/Leon 2.0 didn’t have some of the same experiences together that Max/Leon 1.0 did and so a few things don’t match up but overall they still ended up together and had the same overall experiences. Anyway I just gave up said “sod it” and moved on with the story without trying to put real world logic into it.

So I’m glad I continued the series because it is a lot of fun overall and the big showdown at the end had some sad moments but also some really great ones, condoms full of flour being one of them.

I’m looking forward into seeing what other kinds of trouble Max/Leon and Peterson can get into going forward.

More twisty-turny time stuff from Jodi. After the revelations of the previous novel (PLOT SPOILER: Max dies at Agincourt but then is brought back to life in an alternate world) there are more here. Max's return is not entirely welcome, and then there's the intervention of The Time Police...

Jodi continues to develop characters we care for and puts them through the mill in a variety of different time periods - this time Pompeii and The Black Death in London, for example. The ending is a frenzied battle in St. Mary's itself, which is both thrilling and saddening at the time.

The romance between (new)Max and Leon continues, which for the most part keeps things fizzing. Their eventual romantic- erm- coupling was a little too much information for me, although many fans will appreciate it, if not expect it.

All in all though, a great page turner that grabs the attention and holds it until the very end. It is a positive sign that I read these books very quickly - this time in two lengthy sessions. This series is my guilty secret - I devour them once I start, and find them difficult to put down when reading.

Well done, Jodi.

Really enjoying this series--so much so that I bought the rest of the titles for kindle. It's slightly less than professionally written, with some dumb jokes and a few too many exclamation points, but somehow it really works for the narrator/protagonist voice. She's fierce and feisty and smart but not particularly formal.

The time travel is getting complicated with people replacing themselves in other timelines! But fun as usual. Who knew flour was highly flammable!