GoodReads Monday

This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.

Happy Monday! This week’s pick is coming to you by the letter ‘S’. I had a lot to choose from with this letter. But I finally decided on this second book in a series that I keep thinking I need to pick up, but haven’t yet. Highlighting it here just might give me the push to get to it soon.

A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor

The Chronicles of St Mary’s #2

Publication: October 2013

Summary from Goodreads:

The second book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary’s series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won’t be able to resist Jodi Taylor.

Wherever the historians go, chaos is sure to follow…

Dispatched to Victorian London to seek out Jack the Ripper, things go badly wrong when he finds the St Mary’s historians first. Stalked through the fog-shrouded streets of Whitechapel, Max is soon running for her life. Again.

And that’s just the start. Max finds herself in a race against time when an old enemy is intent on destroying St Mary’s. An enemy willing, if necessary, to destroy History itself.

From the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh to the murder of Thomas a Becket, via an unscheduled dodo rescue mission, join the historians of St Mary’s as they hurtle around History on more hilarious, hair-raising escapades.

I read the first book last spring and really enjoyed it and kept meaning to pick up the second book, but other books kept getting in the way. I think I might pick up the audiobook version when I am done with the next couple of books in my queue.

We are getting closer to the end of the alphabet. I’m not sure what I’m going to base my choices on next, but I will think of something. Until next time….