A SYMPHONY OF ECHOES
JODI TAYLOR (Chronicles of St Mary's #2)
Accent Press
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Night Shade Books
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Rating: 4* of five
The Publisher Says: Book Two in the madcap time-travel series based at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.
In the second book in the Chronicles of St Mary's series, Max and the team visit Victorian London in search of Jack the Ripper, withess the murder of Archbishop Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, and discover that dodos make a grockling noise when eating cucumber sandwiches.
But they must also confront an enemy intent on destroying St Mary's - an enemy willing, if necessary, to destroy History itself to do it.
**UPDATE** Night Shade Books is reissuing the series in trade paperback editions!! At LAST!
My Review: You know how, as you're watching Star Trek in any of its incarnations, you end up wondering pretty darn quick what the heck they keep talking about this Prime Directive for since they seem not to have any intention of following it? Yeah, that. The whole book is that. The St Mary's tea-soppers are set the one really big intervention that will make History match itself. It is a matter of the survival of St Mary's, so we're told, so it's okay to monkey with History. Kleio will approve.
Getting to the magic moment is, however, quite entertaining, and the key discovery made at the end of the first book is called into play very frequently. Pay attention to the details in this book, and I assume you'll want to read it after the delirious romp of #1, because some things are larded in to the chat and background that will cause a veritable street light to go on over your head when you read #3. Which I also assume you'll want to read after the sobering and still very fun events of this book.
So you've read #1, have you? Then read on:
It would seem Ma Taylor plumped for the "One True History" solution, based on the events in this book. The Timeline must be restored!
Go with it. Even if you don't think that's the case, go with it. I promise you it will pay off.
And why the hell should dodos say "grockle"? Well, why the hell not.
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