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  • Just One Damned Thing After Another

  • The Chronicles of St Mary's, Book 1
  • By: Jodi Taylor
  • Narrated by: Zara Ramm
  • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (316 ratings)

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Just One Damned Thing After Another

By: Jodi Taylor
Narrated by: Zara Ramm
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Publisher's Summary

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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  • Kaz
  • 25-06-2016

Comic and very novel (no pun intended)

My immediate impressions were: "Very English" from the acerbic flow of the revealed thoughts of the characters and their conversations, to the very dry humour and the unorthodox institution of a St Mary's. Personally I loved it, but have to wonder whether it would appeal to a non-English audience.

The other significant enjoyment factor was the total novelty of the storyline premise. I can't recall ever reading a story quite like this one, so I would certainly applaud Jodi Taylor's imagination as well as the way she drew the plot together. Well done and thank you.

Finally Zara Ramm's narration was perfect for the characters. She modulated well to indicate the different roles, but kept it clipped enough to represent the story in its best light.

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More Please! A great time-travelling story

This is the first book in a lovely light series of books about the time-travelling historians of St Mary's. Funny and well written with some great and memorable characters.

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Story with more holes than old pair of undies

The story had lots of holes. And the plucky smart humour got very tiresome by the end. A filler until u have some thing better to read.

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Wonderful story teller.

I read the first book in this series and just couldn’t stop. It’s compelling to find out what happens next as the team lurches from one disaster to the next. Downloaded a sample, you’ll be glad you did.

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  • DJB
  • 23-08-2019

Great Story

Great story, main character. just takes everything in her stride.
narrator was really excellent .

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Brilliant

Thoroughly enjoyable. Brilliant world building, fantastic characters and excellent plot. wonderfully narrated. highly recommend. Can't wait to listen to the next book

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potential for great storyline

after a very promising start, the middle part of the book gets a little bogged down, introducing too many characters before the main characters have been fully developed. so thereby the listener gets a bit lost and the narrator does not distinguish enough between male/female tones.
by the end things are becoming clearer and the stage is set for a long running series. it has potential so i will listen to book two and hope to be interested enough to keep me going on with the rest of the series.

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  • Jay
  • 07-02-2017

Clumsy humour and inconsistent characters

I really wanted to like this book! The premise is interesting and the characters seemed to have potential.

Unfortunately the whole story was littered with clunky references to how quirky and madcap St Mary's is - definitely too much tell and not enough show. The constant references to tea and tea drinking smacked of someone who lacks any interesting characteristics and so has adopted a passion for something very mundane to define themselves.

I've read a lot of reviews that describe the humour as being very British, which it could well be if it had more self awareness. Overall the story was underdeveloped, the characters boring and the pace inconsistent.

The narrator did as good a job as she could with the source material.

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Solid story

Interesting and adventurous. More sombre and serious than expected from the blurb. Lots of death and emotional pain. But a good book & performance. I'll be trying the next in series soon.

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Awesome

I found this really good easy read, funny and non stop. It's a great book.

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