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[Choko]

I just finished St. Mary's #9... An Argumentation of Historians. I couldn't put it down! Loved every second of it. The usual rollercoaster, but I actually cried when (view spoiler)[ the dude from past St. Mary's died!!! It was awesome of Leon to go with her and I was thinking how perfect Leon 2.0 was, until he went and ruined it with the Peterson jab... And later them being drugged and fighting... It was cathartic, but I wish they had had the chance to just talk it out, instead of being chemically induced to duke it out...

Ronan has been living on the roof all this time!!!! WTF? And I totally didn't see who the snitch was... That was very surprising! I am so tempted to jump right into the next book, but I will be patient and wait until next week:))) (hide spoiler)]

I think this is the first in the series I am giving 5***** . It had me going through all human emotions and I loved every second of it!

[Tonari no Emily]

Choko, I did too (view spoiler)[ when he died! It truly was a roller coaster of a book! Lots of stuff packed into this one..

And that ending! What does Max have planned??? (hide spoiler)]

[Choko]

I know, right?! I am excited for next week 's read:))))

I got to read the short of how Dr. B got the whole team together, How everything started, and it really gave a good look at how far they had to go to get where they are now... I enjoyed it a lot!

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

St. Mary's #9: Argumentation etc: this entry is notable for feeling like a continuous story for the first chunk... Halcom returning is a thorn in their side, everything builds to Ronan... then that plays out, and Max lost in the past returns to the anthology feel, I think.... that's where I'm at on my re-read...

[Choko]

I loved this book, Iain. I don't know why I liked it best of all of them so far. This Ronan situation is getting worse every time...

[Nirkatze]

Choko wrote: "Nirkatze, we totally understand and we are here, no matter what:)))"

<3 <3

Hey y'all--some of Jodi Taylor's audiobooks are on sale at Chirp for a while. Time Police books and the early St. Mary's.

https://www.chirpbooks.com/authors/jo...

[Tonari no Emily]

Oooh thanks for sharing! I'll prob pick up the Time Police books. I think I have everything else already that was on sale

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

You think that's news!

I just discovered this existed, yesterday: A Bachelor Establishment

(Jodi Taylor writes a Regency romance as Bitchface Barclay)...

[Tonari no Emily]

OKAY I have to read that immediately xD

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Emily wrote: "OKAY I have to read that immediately xD"

$6 ebook, $2 whispersync audiobook afterwards... not bad... still cheaper than 1 platinum annual credit...

[Choko]

You have got to be kidding me!!!!!!!!! I need to check it out immediately!

[Nirkatze]

LOL That's hilarious. More authors need to write under character pseudonyms. I wonder if Barclay's personality comes out in the writing?

[Tonari no Emily]

Right?? That's what I want to know!

[Tonari no Emily]

Oh yeah! @ Brian, Finished Reunion. Highly enjoyable, thanks for the rec! (view spoiler)[ I was hoping for a more cthulu-esque baddy based on the cover, but I think the finale was well done! Glad they all ended up working together in the end :) (hide spoiler)]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Still need to get to that... next chance I have at ebook reading, I definitely will...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Been quiet around here, with so many other BRs going on...

I seem to be slowly heading into more solo re-reads... been a bit free since I finished re-reading everything by Shelly Laurenston / GA Aiken... I did the Dragon Kin series and the Pride series and the Honey Badger Chronicles and the Call of Crows series over the past couple months (I'd forgotten that the Call of Crows trilogy ended on a cliffhanger for a 2nd trilogy when Laurenston finds time)...

I recently started re-reading Mercy Thompson & Alpha and Omega (did the first 2 in both series and a short story already)... now I find myself wanting to re-read Kate Daniels, with the next Innkeeper Chronicles still a ways off from audio release and Hidden Legacy possibly done...

Before too long, I'll renege on my denials of an October Daye re-read, at this rate :D

Gonna do the The Battersea Barricades, The Steam Pump Jump, and Hope for the Best soon... when I'm not doing everything else ;)

[Tonari no Emily]

Heh, well if you do reread October Daye let me know! I was just going to push my reread off to next year and try to get others in on it :)


I got to those short stories last week (or was it the week before?)
I liked getting a bit of the political history before St. Mary's with Battersea.. Our cooks and seamstresses are rather badass! ;)

Steam Pump (view spoiler)[ So basically Max is trying to hook up Lingoss and Peterson? Not sure how that'll work out.. Peterson is probably still grieving, I don't think finding someone else is the best way to get over anything.. But if he's ready to find someone I guess it could work.. (hide spoiler)]

And Now For Something Completely Different was a fun one (view spoiler)[ This one is one of those screw with your mind timey wimey shenanigans.. Future history, our St. Mary's are now "contemporaries"...

Also implications of using time machines as simply teleportation devices. I'm surprised we didn't explore that concept sooner with these books :) (hide spoiler)]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I'm already on Kate Daniels #4... the first couple are pretty short, and I really like #2-4... I've always had issues with #1 and the bad editing around the raid on Dr. Crest, when they think he's the baddie and Kate gets overblamed, but I found some author response online that explained the rationale, and it turns out the version I heard about a missing chapter was wrong, but there is some missing inner monologue that would have made it make a bit more sense...

Also, turns out the hunch comment referenced the upir theory, not Crest directly, and that makes sense...

[Choko]

I want in on the October Daye reread as well!!!

[Choko]

By the way, there is another crazy good sale on Audible right now. I just got the whole Red Rising series and everything Jennifer Fallon...

[Choko]

So, I finished Steam Pump Jump and the one with the TV movie producer and they were pretty awesome! Markham is still my favorite character:) Peterson and... you know who, might make for a good couple and I want him to find someone to share his life with...

I am on Something Completely Different. This is an interesting concept and could open a whole new can of worms, scientifically speaking, but as the author said, it is just a St. Mary's story and is created for the fun of it, not the science... I am just half way through, and laughing my ass off at how Max's name should never be spoken anywhere at the Time Police department:)))) I can understand them completely:))))

[Narilka]

I started The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Iain, I know you left spoilers a few months back. Any chance you remember around which page that was? I wrote it down and can't find my note :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

The group discussions search option is your friend: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Choko]

Loved Something Completely Different, and I was wondering, do any of you guys have any idea if the "bio suit" with the urine has any validity based in fact whatsoever??? Would really like to know:)))

Started St. Mary's #10, Hope for the Best. Just about 10% in and I have no idea what Max's plan is, but I am interested to see her life among the Time Police... Her relationship with Mathew is sweet, funny and heartbreaking at the same time...

[Choko]

Iain, St. Mary's #10 and we finally got to the fog/mist you were talking about!!! This was intense!!! Up to Ch 16... (view spoiler)[ This was a humongous diversion from the timeline and getting it back on track... Wow! History erased the whole thing! Brutal!
Max just got back home and that idiot Halcome has taken over with some goons... I am not happy:((( (hide spoiler)]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Still need to get to St. Mary's... got sidetracked this week with Kate Daniels 1-5, and the Dresden BR...

I'm clearly terrible about the timey-wimey elements and which book they go to, in the St. Mary's series, lol...

Re:bio-suits... I dunno if they're real, but they're a common sci-fi idea... they're used by the desert people in the original Dune, if I recall correctly (movie, if not books)...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I'd buy more on sale, but I'm kinda glutted with options and can't think, if the whole site is on sale...

And most of the personalized recommendations aren't useful, since it's series I've already read/listened to from other sources, so it's listing the rest of the entries I don't own through Audible...

Or it's listing ongoing series I can listen to for free on Audible Plus / Kindle Unlimited (and already AM doing that)...

I'm definitely seeing alot of nice blurbs for pre-orders, tho, like Grey Man and Orphan X... both entries sound great, can't wait... and one is cheap enough to buy for cash... barely...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

As a result, I mostly just picked up the few things I'd wishlisted in the past, and new releases for just under credit price, saving me a bunch of credits...

Be the Serpent
Artful
Rolling in the Deep
A Mirror Mended
The Lost Metal
The Last Orphan
How to Pick Up Women with a Drunk Space Ninja
Priest of Crowns
Nona the Ninth

[Narilka]

Timelord Iain wrote: "The group discussions search option is your friend..."

I never knew you could search discussions. Thanks!

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

It's in that cluster of options in the upper right corner of any group page / discussion page... in desktop mode, anyway... probably not there on mobile...

[Choko]

I spent another 400$... I am so addicted, I can't stop! Those sales kill me every time!

About the bio suits, I was wondering about the protection from radiation specifically... It just sounds really implausible to me...

I am 70% in Hope for the best and it is pretty cool! I am enjoying the whole book quite a bit. And as someone above said, Mathew has skills!!!

[Tonari no Emily]

Woo! So glad I've been buying St. Mary's book by book after the first sale, cuz I got the rest on the sale!!

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Started Be the Serpent -- every time I read one of these, these days, it's hard to believe there's still at least like 8-10 books left in the series... then again, this is another big book with an Author's Note that this has been planned from the beginning, and it's happening 8 books after the 8th book, where this happened before, with Eira Rosenwyr... so maybe it's not too crazy to imagine at least 24 books for the series... (view spoiler)[despite how the King and Queens of Faerie are starting to show up (hide spoiler)]

[Tonari no Emily]

I still need to get to my read! I just know I'll listen too fast and then I'll have to wait a year again for the next one...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Yea... this book is proving that fans of this series are rabid and pretty good at coming up with theories...

Which is only strengthening my belief that (view spoiler)[the changeling senechal of the Lorden boy is Maeve with her powers suppressed to changeling levels... considering the hints back in the Eira Rosenwyr book and the book where October turned the Selkies into Roane... (hide spoiler)]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Finished... and wow... that cliffhanger... Oberon is an idiot... and I'm not really surprised, from everything we've seen of him, so far...

(view spoiler)[that last chapter feels like a Rapunzel setup... with October and August in their mother's tower with new memories, and Tybalt stuck outside trying to get in to rescue October... (hide spoiler)]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I dug through my TBR and bought a couple more books:

Empire of Silence and the rest of the series, is my biggest commitment... hope it doesn't backfire...

The St. Mary's short stories I was missing, that aren't free on Audible Plus (so the ones between books 11-13)...

And the Spotless Series Boxed Set,,, 50hrs of audio for $4... it's a action romance series about a random person and an OCD hitman... they meet when the hitman comes calling for the female lead's mother/grandmother's stolen diamonds... no idea when I added it to my TBR...

There's some other stuff I'd have liked to get, but even discounted, they weren't worth buying for money vs credit...

I also picked up a ton of free stuff, like free St. Mary's short stories, the new Dispatcher #3 story from Scalzi (also picked up #2, since I can't remember if I read it or not)...

[Choko]

I purchased the Sun Eater series too. Tell me when and I will join you in reading it:)))

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Sounds good... might be a bit, tho... we're mired in so many BRs, at the moment, and I'd like to go back and do the back half of the Marla Mason series... just need to read that Shark teeth short story I think, and I'd be ready for that soon...

[Choko]

I finished St. Mary's #10. I was so extremely angry with the Time Police, I was ready to smash things!!!! And then The Boss showed why we love him so much and the ending once again showed me why I am completely in love with this series!!!!! (view spoiler)[ I can't believe the Time Police tried to double cross Max and the whole of St. Mary's that way! I really didn't expect it. I was just as angry as Max when she found out. Wanted to shoot them all! And I felt particularly let down by the commander, because I kind of like her... Just broke my heart! So, when Dr. B got Max to our St. Mary's and told them that they are not welcome anymore, and then Mathew showed up behind his father's back, I was ecstatic!!! And he becoming smitten with Mickey at first glance was absolutely adorable! Now I want to read the next one, but I will wait until next week:))) (hide spoiler)]

[Choko]

Iain, just say when about MM, I will be there:)))

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Choko wrote: "I finished St. Mary's #10. I was so extremely angry with the Time Police, I was ready to smash things!!!! And then The Boss showed why we love him so much and the ending once again showed me why I ..."

I think it's time to start mixing in the time police books, if you have them... they're basically like St. Mary's books, but with Michael as lead...

[Brian]

I’m in. I bought the first 3

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Dunno about you guys, but my short foray back into booktubes in July, including Niki's, is what brought that series and a number of others onto my radar...

[Tonari no Emily]

Heh, just checked out the reviews for Sun Eater 1, Seems like people love it or hate it. Soo did not like it at all lol

I'll probably grab the first one at least...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I try to take Soo's reviews with a grain of salt... she's generally more critical than I am...

[Tonari no Emily]

That's true, I've liked quite a few books she rated poorly...

[Narilka]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Chapter 17: Not so much answers, as nice to see the author/MC ruminate on the multiverse...

Chapter 24: [spoilers removed]"

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August I am loving this book so far.

Ch 24 (view spoiler)[Harry's life told in this half hazard manner has me hooked. I didn't think at first I'd like it and now I wish I had more chores to do to keep listening lol

I admit I have gotten so engrossed in his various lives that I'd sort of disregarded the whole end of the world opener :) (hide spoiler)]

Through Ch 29 (view spoiler)[I was wondering if it was possible for them to break their own cycle so I'm glad to have that answer.

That one guy deliberately changing timelines and impacting people even being born... woah. Mind bender. I can see why they wanted to stop him.

I do wonder like an earlier spoiler of yours if this is literally resetting each time or if he's experiencing the multiverse. (hide spoiler)]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

The author does a decent job of leaving you satisfied with the number of answers given to common time travel questions...

[Julian]

Hey everyone! Been quite a while since I've been active on here. I've been binge reading the wandering inn the past few days but am almost done with it already. What book are you all looking to read soon?