A Symphony of Echoes is the second main novel in Jodi Taylor’s Chronicles of St Mary’s. It starts with a visit to Victorian London to meet Jack the Ripper, and continues on with kidnapping from the future, bad therapy, and making sure Queen Elizabeth I doesn’t get executed by Mary. These books are still proving to be a fun read, barrelling on at great pace and full of witty conversation and quirky scenarios. The story makes for an interesting “what if” scenario (what if Mary […]
Time Travel & T-Rexs
I’ve been struggling to get into Book 6 of The Expanse (sorry guys, but it’s just dragging for me…) and so was in a reading rut. Then I found this on my kindle having picked it up for 99p earlier this year and less than 6 hours later I’d finished the whole damned thing! So thank you Jodi Taylor for writing a fun, fast-paced, romp of a novel that had me turning pages like crazy (even during a boring conference call at work). The book […]
Episode 1-20: But Is It Really Your Story To Tell?
https://killingmykindle.com/2018/05/23/episode-1-20-but-is-it-really-your-story-to-tell/ Wherein I review: 72. And The Rest is History (St. Mary’s Chronicles #8) by Jodi Taylor 73. Final Girls by Riley Sager 74. Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff 75. An Argumentation of Historians (St. Mary’s Chronicles #9) by Jodi Taylor 76. You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann I leave behind time travel and plunge into horror. I ponder whether as white straight men, if we have the right to tell certain stories. And while Final Girls didn’t leave me gasping, Lovecraft Country blew […]
Episode 1-19: Going Insane, Got No Brain
https://killingmykindle.com/2018/05/14/episode-1-19-going-insane-got-no-brain/ Wherein I review: 67. The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo #3) by Rick Riordan 68. Deranged: The Shocking True Store of America’s Most Fiendish Killer by Harold Schechter 69. Lies, Damned Lies, and History (St. Mary’s Chronicles #7) by Jodi Taylor 70. Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3) by Brandon Sanderson 71. Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh Lots of crazies up in this piece. Apollo finds his third Emperor. Harold Schechter scribbles about Albert Fish. Jodi Taylor soldiers on through the time travel. […]

