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  • Just One Damned Thing After Another

  • The Chronicles of St Mary's, Book 1
  • Auteur(s): Jodi Taylor
  • Narrateur(s): Zara Ramm
  • Durée: 9 h et 30 min
  • 4,3 out of 5 stars (127 évaluations)

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Just One Damned Thing After Another

Auteur(s): Jodi Taylor
Narrateur(s): Zara Ramm
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The first book in the best-selling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.

Time Travel meets History in this explosive bestselling adventure series.

'So tell me, Dr Maxwell, if the whole of History lay before you...where would you go? What would you like to witness?'

When Madeleine Maxwell is recruited by the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research, she discovers the historians there don't just study the past - they revisit it.

But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. And she soon discovers it's not just History she's fighting....

©2013 Jodi Taylor (P)2014 Audible Studios

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Au global
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire
  • 4 out of 5 stars
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  • Au global
    3 out of 5 stars
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    2 out of 5 stars
  • Ben
  • 2018-01-15

As expected, good enough, but not stellar.

After the author-read prequel, I was a bit skeptical about starting this series. The concept is so cool: historians getting the power to time travel and getting into a bunch of random historical timey-wimey trouble!

The book was...almost what I expected. The time travel aspect was cool, and the story made so much more sense (the prequel was written sometime after book 4, and I've since read you need to read them in publication order rather than chronological order). The narrator was FAR superior than the author, though the first-person narration made it hard to determine what was dialogue or internal thoughts. And I found that it was hard to separate characters unless there was an obvious accent as the voices weren't too dissimilar.

The plot of this book was as expected, and not high literature. There were some good surprises and plot twists, including an evil band of time travellers out to stop St. Mary's. Some good confrontations led me to want a bit more, though I was at times confused about what was happening, why, and how. It's the classic problem of a time travel plot, but seemed even less explained.

While there were many good elements of this book, I did find the lead character a bit annoying. She starts as a recruit and ends up as the senior historian - ok it's possible and makes for a good establishing of the main character - but the drama and volatility with relationships and the outcomes of events got tiring. I'd listen to the second book in the series, but it's not a high priority.

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    4 out of 5 stars
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A great book for mom.

I listen to books with my 13 and 14 year daughters. This is not that book! Too much swearing and sex for my girls, I loved listening to it without them. What an exciting story, I love the narrator.

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Love this series!

This has to be my all time favourite book series! Very funny and lots of really interesting history. Pure escapism and a much needed respite from the mess all around us right now. Zara Ramm is the perfect choice for Max.

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Disappointing

The narration is great, but the story itself falls short. not entirely sure how there is an entire series after this, I was barely intrigued enough to finish just the one. It's a decent premise with lots of promise in the beginning, but even being interested in history and science I felt underwhelmed. The flow of the whole story was also strange, I felt like there were many climaxes where you'd think this is where the story was going and then it didn't go that way, or it was only a minor plot point. By the time the whole thing was done I felt like I had just listened to 6 or more short stories, none of which were compelling enough to have been the main intrigue of an entire novel. I read through all the reviews before using my credit on it, it definitely sounded like I should like it. It was by no means a terrible listen, the narrator had a nice voice and brought life to it, it's just not one I would necessarily recommend.

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  • Au global
    5 out of 5 stars
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The Best of Everything

Love this book and have listened to it several times. It has some of everything.

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I'd love to have drink with the author!

Rollicking fun and the Narrator was spot on. Brilliant. Moments of well built tension as well as laugh out loud bits. I listened twice back to back to make sure I caught it all. St Mary's has a new fan.

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  • Au global
    5 out of 5 stars
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    5 out of 5 stars

Love it! And it really is one Damn thing after another!!!

This is one of my favourite books! Max is an absolute delight and I wish my workplace was as delightfully chaotic as St Mary’s!! Zara Ram’s performance is fantastic!!

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    4 out of 5 stars
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  • Sam
  • 2019-05-08

Just one damn thing after another

This book really is one thing after another without much let up or breathing room. It's an interesting book but the pacing needs some work. I enjoyed the narrator.

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    5 out of 5 stars
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A super book even if you're not a history geek

A great story idea. Lots of adventure and very well written. I really enjoyed this book and have since started to listen to others in the series. The narrator is pretty good and subtle with the many British accents. Love the copious cups of tea and hard drinking, very brit.

You don't need to be a history geek to enjoy this book or the rest of the series. The dives into historical events are great stories and the thread of the protagonists life is interesting.

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    5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book

I throughly enjoyed this book. I wish there were more. It was funny, sad, suspenseful and just wonderful.

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