Doing Time - Jodi Taylor

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Title: Doing Time (Time Police #1)
Author: Jodi Taylor
Genre: Sci-fi
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 464 pages
Date read: May, 2022

A long time ago in the future, the secret of time travel became known to all. Unsurprisingly, the world nearly ended. There will always be idiots who want to change history.

Enter the Time Police. An all-powerful, international organisation tasked with keeping the timeline straight. At all costs.

Their success is legendary. The Time Wars are over. But now they must fight to save a very different future - their own.

This is the story of Jane, Luke and Matthew - the worst recruits in Time Police history. Or, very possibly, three young people who might change everything.


I hadn't realized that this book/series took place in the same universe as the Chronicles of St. Mary's series, but fortunately it seemed to be enough to have read the first one - I just needed to know Max, Leon and what St. Mary's was all about!

I liked it. I really liked getting to know Jane, Luke and Matthew, and I very much enjoyed the ABSENSE of foreshadowing here (as that was what made me give up on the other series after just two books). It's the first book in a spin-off series, but nicely contained, so we'll see if I continue with the rest of the books, or just stick to this one.