Everything needed for a successful series of books is there, but despite the near endless potential, it just doesn’t coalesce. Courtesy of Stockport Library, I have now sampled the aforementioned Book 1, and am prepared to comment upon it. I read very little SF/Fantasy outside my select group of favourite authors (one of whom has more or less given up writing fiction), and don’t really have much interest in expanding that circle, but something about the set-up and the description attracted my interest and when that happens, my instincts are usually pretty good. The Chronicles are narrated by Alice Maxwell, aka Max, and were pitched as being exciting, funny and highly entertaining (on Amazon, the last goes without saying). But history is a dangerous, not to mention slapdash thing, prone to kick back at any moment. The description sounded promising: St Mary’s is an historical research institute where the historians go out and get their hands dirty, traveling in time to different periods to work out exactly what happened. I’m not even sure what I was looking at now, but about five to six weeks ago, I caught sight of this book series, ‘The Chronicles of St Mary’s’, by Jodi Taylor, of which Just One Damned Thing After Another is the first. Not, in this instance, by an e-mail, but by one of those ‘If you like this…’ recommendations that litter up the place when you’re browsing relatively aimlessly. Still, it proves that the system works, for a given value of ‘work’.Įvery now and then, however, I do get tempted.
Well, those algorithms are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard 95% of the time, and the other 5% turn out to be books and records I have already bought: in some cases, through Amazon itself a few years earlier. Of course, this comes with a drawback, in the form of endless e-mails pointing me towards books and records that Amazon’s algorithms are convinced I will like. Living on a limited income, and with negative equity to repay, I haven’t really got the space to take a moral stance towards Amazon. This is not the cover of the paperback I read Trout Nation – Your One-Stop Procrastination Stop.The Infinite Jukebox: The Animals’ ‘It’s My Life’.
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