To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about A Symphony of Echoes , please sign up. I didn't get the point to how it happened so quickly and then he died! It was really never explained what he had exactly and why they couldn't do something about it. Did I miss a plot point? Smee It was definitely confusing. The impression I had was that his death was a delayed result of his accident, and he had known he had limited time. I …more It was definitely confusing.
I think the author was trying to make us feel the suddenness by having it be so unexplained, but really, all that does is confuse the reader. What exactly was the true nature of Chief Farrel's "bleed-through? Al I think that Chief Farrel's coma was just a poor way to set up a conflict in the story. I feel like it could have been a sort of …more I think that Chief Farrel's coma was just a poor way to set up a conflict in the story.
See all 7 questions about A Symphony of Echoes…. Lists with This Book. Feb 14, Choko rated it really liked it Shelves: Let's go back in History!!! Mostly, I love the quirky humor and wacky time jumps. I enjoy the writing style, but there is something missing. I wish I could put my finger on it, but I can't Max is a very likable character, but something is not quite right with her love interest and second book in a row him freezing her out with no explanation nor discussion. If it happens once, you can talk it out and learn from the mistake.
If it happens twice, there is something wrong and you might want to start rethinking the relationship for real Chief is cool, but I don't like this bipolar personality of his Overall, I am a fan, but not blind to the weaker points to the series. Once again, I am not a Time Traveller's fiction fan to begin with and that might be one of the reasons I am not swooning over the books, but the vignettes when the teams are in the historical locations are my favorite here.
Or even the backyard itself. I could feel my colon assuming a defensive posture. View all 13 comments. You definitely have to have an inclination towards madcap zany predicaments and quirky heroines to enjoy this series. Max is strange and sometimes annoying. The story-telling is all over the place and the book is split up into several plots.
One story is sort of resolved and then the story moves choppily into the next. Some questions are never answered or plot points ignored. What was really up with him? We never really find out. The drama-llama between Max and Farr I liked it. The drama-llama between Max and Farrell. But it didn't take up too much time, so I was able to get over it. They are both kind of immature for their age and really need to work on their communication.
The Big Misunderstanding was my "biggest" issue with this. I hope future books don't include other instances like this. Overall, the first half worked better for me, but it was still just as easy to read as the previous one and I do think these books are fun in their own way. I like the kookiness. The dodo scene was awesome! LOL But those looking for solid world-building and logical characterization would be frustrated.
Still, if you are looking for something goofy and light and don't mind a bit of whiplash from the shifting plots I'm definitely going to check out the next one. Buddy read with the MacHalo group.
Here are my spoilery thoughts and comments: He was obviously possessed or animated by something supernatural - that even grew in a petri dish and wouldn't die unless burned several times! It was just dropped. No answers about that. Unless I missed something? The drama with Farrell and Max was annoying. I still don't quite understand what happened. It appeared that because of his injury, Knox manipulated him into thinking Max need "tough love" and rejected her when they were supposed to have intimate sex him seeing her for the first time with the "lights on" and then they don't speak for months, so a misunderstanding goes on until they finally talk and forgive each other?
He had recently woken up from a forced coma and had brain injuries right and was still recovering? It was like Knox mind-controlled him into rejecting her.
And then afterwards, he didn't even remember what he said, right? And it was basically just dropped after they agreed to just forgive and move on.
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Not very well-written in my view. Why didn't she give him the benefit of the doubt since he had been seriously injured? She knew he dropped off into sleep and woke up talking nonsense. Why didn't she go to him afterwards and even ask if he remembered saying that? Because she is too insecure and bad at communication. Not that he is any better. Max locking Mary Stuart in the room with Bothwell, who was a rapist?
Not sure about that. So was he supposed to have forced himself on her, thus forcing her to marry him since in those days that is what you usually did? View all 5 comments. Jul 17, Bradley rated it it was amazing Shelves: This second book still reads like an amazingly light-voiced opera of death, time-mystery, and casual sex Seriously though, her treatment of cars makes me wonder if they'll wind up going the way of the Dodos.
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Minus the Cucumber Sandwiches. I preferred this one a lot over the first book for once reason: It stayed in known-history for the majority of the book rather than with the dinos. I'm a sucker for historical mysteries and I'm even more of a suck This second book still reads like an amazingly light-voiced opera of death, time-mystery, and casual sex I'm a sucker for historical mysteries and I'm even more of a sucker for why Shakespeare wrote a play where the Other Mary took over when Elisabeth died.
Woooooo the lead up in the first novel was perfect and I'm super satisfied by seeing a lot more of it here. Jack the Ripper was a treat, of course, and wow was he different from most of the rip-offs, but more than anything, I loved seeing our MC get promoted to her level of incompetence. It was all too funny. A team building exercise of capturing dodos?
The dark stuff is also very dark, of course, and I can't quite say whether so much casual death among the Historians ramps up the tension or minimizes it. Maybe in some backwards way it does both, but either way, it really fills the pages. Oh yeah, and time unravelling. That might be bad. This is some very fun stuff, ya'll. Time travel can be clever and wild and fast, yo! View all 28 comments. So after a good night's sleep and a big hot mug of tea yeah, I prefer mugs to St. Mary's typical nice and flowery china , I have now sorted my thoughts.
A Symphony of Echoes: The Chronicles of St Mary's, Book 2 (Unabridged)
This second volume was very interesting and fast-paced again, the characters amicable as ever and the events laced with wonderful historical tidbits. However, it did not get me to care as much as the first. The first volume was a rollercoaster that jerked me this way and that way and left me completely breathless. Th So after a good night's sleep and a big hot mug of tea yeah, I prefer mugs to St. The central question of the series? If you had the technology to jump through time, what would you do?! Thankfully, the people in this story well, not all of them but "our" St.
Mary's anyway are sensible enough to only use this technology for historical research. It does help that any historian trying to change history usually gets crushed by "accidentally" falling heavy objects. However, there are loopholes and although I usually don't like that, Jodi Taylor manages to once again make it plausible and explain it in a logic science-like way. There are many open issues from book 1 that get addressed in this one, like Ronan who got away with Bitchface Barclay and the fact that he must have some sort of plan it is revealed here and actually quite cunning. So I was quite surprised that our first time-jump apart from Kal's farewell assignment was not into the past but into the future, but what are you gonna do if one of the team is snatched?!
This book started off very strong with a unique view of Jack the Ripper, what he was and why he disappeared when he did. There were several very strong moments throughout the book and much hilarity but even the jokes were not as funny as in the first book. For a moment I was afraid the author had already given us all there was until I discovered a pattern: However, the true hilarity only ensues whenever St.
Mary's is its quirky self, blundering through the ages, blowing things up accidentally, drinking tea every 5 seconds, catching Dodos as a team-building event or failing to do so, rather , The characters are the main strength of the author and the story, which is why I'm sad Kal left at the beginning. Boy, this woman is definitely the true MC of the series and I caught myself hooting several times when she saved the day - and with style!
D Unfortunately, she was alone this time, her sister Mrs. Knox in this case, had a mole in St. Yes, it was future St. On the other hand, that might just be the modus operandi of the bad guys and them sticking to it could be seen as being consistant. But then we also had view spoiler [a slight relationship problem between Leon and Max hide spoiler ] and it was beyond stupid. I completely understand Max in this situation and LOVE her creative reaction to it, but the reason for the whole catastrophe happening was unbelievably dumb.
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After all the massive heartbreak in book 1 and what Max had to go through, this was to me just a poor way of hooking the reader that fell completely flat for me. The historical bits, like Mary Stewart's Scotland were fantastic and it was quite impactful how view spoiler [Max had to cause Queen Mary getting raped! Watching history, being unable to do anything like seeing a good monarch getting killed by his beloved children for whatever reason , is one thing - THIS was plain awful emotionally; the author did a wonderful job writing that sequence.
Moreover, the places the historians went to were wonderfully vivid and realistic and the reader learns quite a lot without realising it at first. In case anyone was wondering: Last but not least I'd like to address the fact that although I have the ebooks of the entire series, I started listening to the audio version and LOVED what the narrator, Zara Ramm, did with the story. Her British accent was sure to get me hooked anyway, but the way she slightly differentiated in accents between the characters Clio being relatively bland so as not to give anything away, Max with a "normal" British accent, Dr.
Bairstow and Schiller with a more unique accent, View all 30 comments. 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 inten Rating: 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?
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. 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.
A Symphony of Echoes (Chronicles of St. Mary's, book 2) by Jodi Taylor
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. By clicking 'Sign me up' I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the privacy policy and terms of use. Free eBook offer available to NEW subscribers only. Must redeem within 90 days. Is it me or has Professor Rapson devised a method of warping spacetime and projecting it from the pages of a Kindle book, such that today appears to be tomorrow and yesterday will be the day after tomorrow? Personally, I think that says a lot about the human-feline relationship from the other perspective.
Between the Battle of St. I believe it was in A Trail Through Time, when Max and Leon were being chased up and down the timeline by the Time Police, who had really gotten out of hand. No it was the explosion after chasing Ronan from And the rest is history, ronan throws two bombs in the air and blows up most of hawking.
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