
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
4.46
1,254 ratings·714 reviews
Max is back and ready for anything! New husband, new gig, and a training plan guaranteed to… implode spectacularly. Throw in a temporary Chief Training Officer, five eager recruits, Joan of Arc, a baby mammoth, a two-faced Father of History, an exploding rat, Stone Age hunters, some very confused co...
- Pages
- 345
- Format
- Kindle Edition
- Published
- 2015-08-20
- Publisher
- Accent Press
- ISBN
- 9781682991213
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Jodi Taylor
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Jodi Taylor is the internationally bestselling author of the Chronicles of St Mary's series, the story of a bunch of disaster prone individuals who investigate major historical events in contemporary time. Do NOT call it time travel! She is also the author of the Time Police series - a St Mary's spinoff and gateway int...
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Adrian·1 years ago
Solo Series Read 2024 - 2025This is the sixth book in the series. After suffering injuries in the previous adventure, Max is now the Chief Training Officer, and St Mary’s has finally got some new trainees—five of them, to be exact.Laying out the whole program, Max intends to expose them to Joan of Arc, prehistoric man, the father of history (Herodotus), and Richard the Third. All quite safe, or at least as safe as the “historians” can make it. So, when supervised by Max and the security departme...
Vintage·5 years ago
Max is Chief Training Officer, and she's not exactly thrilled about it or her trainees. Honestly, who would be after *that* first day?
She travels to witness poor Joan of Arc burning at the stake, takes a jaunt to the Stone Age (cue the baby mammoth shenanigans), and then suffers a bit of tragedy at the Battle of Bosworth. Honestly, what could possibly go wrong in Jodi Taylor's *What Could Possibly Go Wrong?* Apparently, quite a lot! If you're after a fun time travel book review, look no further.
She travels to witness poor Joan of Arc burning at the stake, takes a jaunt to the Stone Age (cue the baby mammoth shenanigans), and then suffers a bit of tragedy at the Battle of Bosworth. Honestly, what could possibly go wrong in Jodi Taylor's *What Could Possibly Go Wrong?* Apparently, quite a lot! If you're after a fun time travel book review, look no further.
Robin (Bridge Four)·8 years ago
Once again, Max finds herself hurtled through time where everything that could possibly go wrong does, but in totally unexpected ways, and this time she has students with her. St. Mary’s will never be the same if any of the students actually make it to graduation.
> *“These days, people actually sought me out and asked me for advice on personal relationships, romantic problems, and social issues **which, quite honestly, is a bit like asking an anorexic for recipes.”***
Since Max is on the mend...
Maria Dimitrova·8 years ago
If you've read any of the Chronicles of St Mary's books, you know that a title like "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" by Jodi Taylor is practically begging for trouble. Every time I heard Max say those words, I just knew things were about to spiral out of control. The historians at St Mary's are basically walking natural disasters. But damn, are they hilarious! You just have to get used to the chaos. For fans of funny book reviews, this one's a winner!
Richard Derus·9 years ago
Some days are better than others. These days, the good ones are sufficiently distant from each other that I go looking for them. I purchased "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" to make one of those journeys.Success. Mission accomplished! I opened to the "List of Characters," got to "Henry Tudor—A man who would drink his own bathwater," and let out a long guffaw. The pages turned, the chuckles got chuckled, and the sniffs over the required tragedies got sniffed. Herodotus will absolutely never be the...
Veronique·9 years ago
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?What indeed?! I mean, hasn't Max learned that you should NEVER say that! :O)Anyway, another fantastic installment in the St Mary's adventures. Jodi Taylor is just amazing at turning seemingly dry historical events into vivid sequences – often very violent, always fascinating. In this instance, we have a trip to the Valley of the Kings and the Stone Age (Cro Magnons and Neanderthals co-existing, not forgetting mammoths of course), but also Herodotus, Joan of Arc's exe...
Trish·9 years ago
I really wanted to finish What Could Possibly Go Wrong? last night, but around 1:30 AM I kept falling asleep, so I gave up. Probably for the best, because the last few chapters weren't just exciting and tragic, but the very end left me grinning from ear to ear! :D
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? was one hell of a ride. Since St. Mary's loses so many people so often, they had to come up with a new training program. Max was put in charge of that, while Peterson took over her job. She got five train...
Bradley·9 years ago
Oh boy, kids... you better play nice, or someone's gonna lose an eye or an arm. At least try to follow the rules! Oh gosh. I guess something went wrong in "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" by Jodi Taylor.This book had a ton of awesome time-travel destinations, some of which I'd give an arm to visit myself. To witness Neanderthals and Modern Humans coexisting and collaborating? To experience those harsh conditions and the Mammoths? Maybe even sneak one back to the future? Nah, we wouldn't do that. ...
Sara·9 years ago
I received a copy of "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" in exchange for an honest review. The sixth installment in the St Mary’s series finds our heroes hurtling through the Pleistocene period, the Valley of the Kings, and a fiery encounter with Joan of Arc, among others. This time, Max is forced out of her comfort zone, having switched roles with Tim Peterson, in order to train a bunch of new recruits in the ways of St Mary’s. As usual, the disaster magnets can’t seem to manage a simple ‘jump’ wit...
Hallie·10 years ago
That three-star rating might seem a little harsh, but it'll be lost in the sea of five-star ratings anyway, and it's there for a reason, despite how wonderful many things in Jodi Taylor's *What Could Possibly Go Wrong?* were. (This is the first novel I've listened to, after really liking the narrator on the short stories, which I'd read but were being offered free on Audible. I wish it were possible to give a separate rating for performance, as I loved it so much I may get 4 & 5 on audio althoug...




