Let's face it: at book number five you know what you are getting. A fun and enjoyable romp throughout history, with some antics and time twisting conundrums thrown in for good measure. If you liked the previous books, you'll like this one too. In particular, I loved the bit about the open day and the boat race, and Thermopylae!

This one also seems to have put the manufactured relationship drama behind, which I am very thankful for because as you can tell by reading my reviews of other books in this series, I was never a big fan of. These books are exciting enough without needing to a complicated relationship to spice it up!

Another enjoyable adventure at St. Mary's, this book continues a solid time-travelling series, with the usual sillinesses as well as deeper, more emotional moments, all of which tie together to make a well-written and fantastic series.

This is the most light-hearted St Mary’s entry so far - 90% romp, with only minimal emotional trauma! They’re all fun, but often packaged with a gut punch, so I enjoyed this instalment being a little bit softer - though I was on edge throughout the last 80 pages waiting for something to go horribly, heart-wrenchingly wrong. But that isn‘t to say this book doesn’t do a huge amount for character development, and several plot seeds are sown for future books... One of my favourites in the series. Five stars!

I really loved the development of this book and I can’t wait to read the entire of this series! Full review up soon!

Another St Mary’s adventure, and this time we have everything from a ghost, the 1666 burning of St Paul’s with devastating results, an epic boat race and the battle of Thermopylae. As usual, it’s a mad dash rollercoaster of an adventure, bouncing from one time period to another and the pace never lets up once. But I’ve come to expect nothing less from the St Mary’s gang.

I did find myself a little more detached than normal with this book, and I think that’s because it’s less ‘hard hitting’ than the previous novels. Yes, there’s the usual shadow of death that seems to follow Max and co. wherever they go, but I was less surprised than I normally would be at the inevitable twists and turns. I think I was less taken with the areas of history explored too, although I did find myself chuckling at the family drama that Max seems to get involved in at the 17th century St Mary’s. And the scenes with Thermopylae are some of my all time favourites - it would be my ‘final jump’ of choice for sure. Although I might find myself a little disappointed if Leonidas didn’t look like Gerard Butler.

The climax to the novel is also something a little different this time around, and left me feeling all warm and fuzzy. It was great to hear the echoes of previous novels and stories past as Max walks the halls of St Mary’s. It was a lovely reminder of everything the characters have gone through to date, and really instilled the belief that they’re a weird, dysfunctional family with a lot of love for each other.

Good fun adventure with plenty of history thrown in for good measure. I just wanted a tiny bit more drama to elevate this to the previous novels success. Still loved it though.

It's the aftermath of the battle with the Time Police, but everything is settling down until Dr Bairstow announces that there's going to be a fundraising open day and St Mary's acquires a ghost that only Markham can see. Max confronts Isabella Barclay (almost disastrously) and finally makes a commitment. About time too.

This was a very engaging book. I'm still loving the Chronicles of St Mary. It read a little more like a series of incidents rather than a complete novel, but even so it hung together well and delivered the usual mix of humour and mayhem.

Another great addition to the series. I find these truly enjoyable, hilarious and they are perfect to jump in a story that takes my mind from everything. It's very entertaining.
Thanks a lot to the publisher and Netgalley for this copy in exchange for an honest review.

This is another endearingly silly romp through time with Max and friends, and at least Max and Leon are pretty stable in this one - all the angsty on-off problems of the earlier books are a bit too YA for me. That said, the history which is the reason why I like these feels almost superficial here and surely the rules of time travel are being broken all the time now: they're not supposed to change the past or leave things behind, yet they do... Still, a comic and fun read, perfect as a palate cleanser between more challenging reads.