--- product_id: 28860759 title: "Just One Damned Thing After Another (Chronicles of St. Mary's Book 1)" brand: "jodi taylor" price: "719735₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/28860759-just-one-damned-thing-after-another-chronicles-of-st-marys store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # Just One Damned Thing After Another (Chronicles of St. Mary's Book 1) **Brand:** jodi taylor **Price:** 719735₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Just One Damned Thing After Another (Chronicles of St. Mary's Book 1) by jodi taylor - **How much does it cost?** 719735₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/28860759-just-one-damned-thing-after-another-chronicles-of-st-marys) ## Best For - jodi taylor enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted jodi taylor brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Just One Damned Thing After Another (Chronicles of St. Mary's Book 1) ## Images ![Just One Damned Thing After Another (Chronicles of St. Mary's Book 1) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51eYBX5HZBL.jpg) ![Just One Damned Thing After Another (Chronicles of St. Mary's Book 1) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31cGcC50WNL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐ Lots of fun *by P***Y on Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2023* Bought for $5 on 3/19/23 for Second Foundation meeting 4/23/23, to discuss with A Symphony of Echoes. 14 St. Mary’s novels and 4 Time Police, 2 Frogmorton, 3 Elizabeth Cage, all in 10 years!? Plus numerous short stories. I can’t find any mainstream reviews. Looking forward to comparing these to the Connie Willis time travel novels in Oxford, having read Blackout, and All Clear from 2010.How old is Jodi Taylor?Does she draw?Did she have a fraught and mysterious childhood, or is Max’s totally made up?Robert Laurence Binyon poem“an appealing cast of characters in this new series opener, most especially the intrepid Max. There is plenty of humor, lots of action, and even a touch of romance” ~ Library Journal on publication of the first American edition in June 2016.The idea that History itself fights violently to keep historians from messing around is very imaginative - and fascinating.Hope punk gets infiltrated with dystopian intrigue, including profit-seeking scoundrels. Pretty cool.Hilarious and goofy similes. E.g., he’d fallen for Kal like a sperm whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle.Lots of humor throughout.She likes to blame herself for all sort of things, but fortunately it doesn’t last - she doesn’t dwell in recrimination and guilt, and never indulged in resentment or blaming others.When she has a scary group to face, it’s “stuck my chin in the air” and faced them, 4 times.Another trope, sort of emblematic of most of the adventures: Everything went wrong. Right from the off, everything went wrong.Sex scene is weak - intrusive and unnecessary. Would be much better if alluded to at an appropriate moment as a well-deserved “climax” to the relationship building.For a who,e she had to live in a place with black mould, yet she got five years of wages - where are they? p. 169Is articulacy a word? Yes, but it’s new to me, pyroclastic too. “Yay!”Sophisticated training and teaching, like “Your primary survival strategy will always be running away.”Hawking: “It just seems strange that a hangar in an historical research centre is named after the famous physicist.’“Being a teacher she obviously did mind-reading as well.”electronic scratchpad fitted snugly inside a knee pocketFOD plod (foreign object drop) clean-up exercise.Britishisms (defined in notes in the the text):bunking offSod that for a game of soldiers.Shoot, Shag, or MarryshaggedMancunianpillockfootietodgersecondedP45sbanging on, bang on,‘Bugger offstuck in (6)sock bunsmarmbashing the bishopwinding upsarniebuttiesSod's LawarmariumHereward the WakeAdventures:Westminster abbey work, ch.4Peasant’s revolt, ch. 4The Somme, ch. 4 & 5Cretaceous Period, ch. 8 (Farrell’s story ch. 7); more and returnLibrary of Alexandria, ch. 17 ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a hecka funny book *by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2023* (Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)Madeleine "Max" Maxwell, a promising postdoc historian in a somewhat-future Britain, is hired to work at St Mary's Abbey, which now houses a "unit" which performs contemporary historical research: meaning that they actually go to various historical episodes and witness and film (well, holo) them. This is very hush-hush, kept secret even from the University of Thirsk, to which they are nominally attached; all the University knows is that they ask for historical research to be done, and the unit provides results.This is very dangerous work. The average career of a historian at St Mary's is measured in months, and they don't retire; rather, their names go up on the Wall of Honor. You see, History _protects_ itself; it you are about to do something that would change History, well, things happen to you. Plus, there is at least one other organization with time travel pods, and they are not nice people.At St Mary's, Max finds friends, danger, a lover, betrayal, and much else, not necessarily in that or in any order.What the above description fails to mention is that this is, in places, a very funny book. It manages to keep that to _appropriate_ places; moments of danger, emotion, and so on may have bits of comic relief, but it never deflates the main point of the moment. In other words, Taylor does exactly what Monty Python fails to accomplish in their heavier sketches and films. Which is not to say that it's all in good taste: the book can get quite rude when the situation calls for rudeness.I will certainly continue with this series. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Absolutely the best thing I’ve read in years! *by E***T on Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2023* Timing is perfect!The humor sets this work apart from other terrific sci-fi/action/adventure stories. The main character is a delight and the supporting cast is entertaining.I very highly recommend this book. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vn/products/28860759-just-one-damned-thing-after-another-chronicles-of-st-marys](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/28860759-just-one-damned-thing-after-another-chronicles-of-st-marys) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vietnam* *Store origin: VN* *Last updated: 2026-04-23*