A Trail Through Time: The Chronicles of St. Mary's, Book 4

Pre-ordered this and seriously was counting the days till it was released. Jodi Taylor didn't fail to deliver again. A fast paced romp (including PJ's) through time, then some serious storylines.

I'm a bit disappointed that Zara Ramm has dropped Dr Bairstow's accent (slight Scottish, I think - I'm a New Zealander and don't pick between Scottish and Irish well). Still, she still reads the books with an understanding of pace, suspense and emotion.

I hope there will be more of these books. I fell in love with the first one and haven't been able to stop listening to them. I tried to listen to this in one sitting and sadly fell asleep almost right at the end (just at the interesting fight) so I had to finish it today. Jodi Taylor left it open ended enough for there to be more books and I hope her muse doesn't fail her.

People have complained about plot holes in these books but I've found that Ms Taylor is quite adept in filling them in (not always in the same book). Let's face it, time travel allows the filling of plot holes.

More please.

At the end of “A Second Chance”, I was more than a little unsure where this series was going. I enjoyed the book, even the harrowing section about the fall of Troy, but the ending, which took Max into an alternate universe, seemed a little weak. I’d been concerned that the ideas had dried up and St Mary’s was no longer going to be part of the story-line.

I needn’t have worried. “A Trail Through Time” actually boosts the series: some of the gloom and doom of the old St Mary’s is lifted without diminishing its anarchic character and recalcitrant nature; Max is delivered from life in the office to spend more time in a pod – well, actually, more time running away from people and things that are trying to kill her; and we get to visit London during the Black Death and again during a seventeenth century Frost Fair, Pompeii during the great eruption and Egypt at the time of the heretic Pharaoh, Akhenaten.

There are new set of bad(ish) guys – the sinister, black-clad Time Police – and a new, but still familiar, St. Mary’s.

What held everything together for me was the way Max embraced her second chance. She doesn’t take it for granted and she doesn’t get off easily but she commits herself to her new world with her usual passion, bravery and wonderfully dry and quintessentially British humour. We learn more about the darkness of her childhood and see her tested to her limits. She comes out of it stronger and somehow more grown up but without being any less of a walking hurricane.

“A Trail Through Time” reinvigorated the series for me. I’m looking forward to seeing what Max gets up to next.

St Mary's what fun - a really enjoyable fast paced humorous series with a wonderful female lead.

Generally the reader is great but sometimes mis-reads a simple word, obvioulsy just in error, but also can't pronounce some others at all. Pyroclastic flow become proclastic and there's other. Overall she's fine but it does throw you out of the moment a fair amount.

As always I enjoyed this book. The tangles that Madeline Maxwell gets herself into are delightfully improbable. This book is a little more violent than the other books but I am looking forward to the next book in the series.

I love this series. This one is a bit of a hodgepodge of stories woven together rather than one great adventure but equally as enjoyable as the others.

Max is on her last adventure across the tide of time before taking on a promotion. But she is an historian. Nothing quite goes to plan!

St Mary's is on danger and Max is in the middle of it all.

This whole series of books are just outstanding... how is it I had not heard of this series prior to the recommendation from Audible. Both my hubby and I are now hooked and consumed the first 4 books at a rate of knots.

Its a fun if slightly irreverent look at what time travel could be like. Borrows more than just a little bit from shows like Dr Who. But by the same token I think it has enough uniqueness to become4 its own TV show eventually. We would certainly watch it!!

I am addicted to Jodie Taylor's stories. Such a light hearted way to look at history through the ages. There a few places I would love to go to with the team dreams dreams

After book three the story of this one was a little disappointing but still a good listen