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Another fun romp with some great characters, but as usual they career around time with reckless abandon disobeying everything they are told and ignoring the consequences. They are disaster magnets and they are the least suitable people on the planet to Time Travel. So I'm at a loss to explain why I still read them and quite enjoy them!

A good Christmas story in the traditional ghost of Christmas Past style. Fun read.

I almost enjoy the short stories more than the full length books, there's less time to get annoyed with how many completely dumb decisions Max and her gang make! But you can't help but love the characters which is whybi keep coming back.

Excellent prequel to the series. A great story about Dr Bairstow and how St Mary's was set up and I found it good to read out of sequence with the the series too as it gave more life to the characters he recruits.

What a fabulously imaginative plot. I love these characters and the world they inhabit, so English in the humour and locations. Hollywood sets it's blockbuster locations as New York, London, Paris etc, Jasper Fforde opts for Swindon. If you like that idea, you'll love the books.

As Craig Revel Horwood might say Fab-U-Lous! Great characters both heroes and foes, fantastic lotions, these books keep just getting better and better.

My favourite so far! The characters are fabulous the locations and time periods are always so interesting and fun to journey through and usually half destroy too. Keep them coming!

Another fabulously fun adventure, great characters - Lord Silver is just wonderful. Read these now!

I love thecharacters - Irene, Kai, Vale and Singh and the parallel world's device is great for getting the into all kinds of trouble in different world's that all bare a resemblance to our own. Intelligent, funny and with some good twists I've thoroughly enjoyed the first two books.

What a good debut novel! Really enjoyed this alternate realities book. Good characters, nice touches of humour and an adventurous yarn means I'm looking forward to starting book two.

Fun but short.

Great idea but I'm afraid I found it all a bit confusing and muddled, probably just me. The characters never really got developed much and you didn't really care about them at all. I was really looking forward to this book too.

I thought this was a much better romp through history than previous episodes. A bit less stupidity from all the historians but they still just do dumb things again and again. Who'd appoint people with the remit to not interfere in time and then let them do it again and again and not sack them. I do like the characters though.

I enjoyed this much more than the previous books. More an adventure time travel romp than about the history department doing ridiculously stupid things time and time again.

I'm still not Max's biggest fan but she was far less irritating in this installment but you're still left thinking how dumb they all are from time to time (forgot there's a tracker inside you). and how unbelievable the events get (the A team style shoot out at the end). Fortunately I only have one book left in my impulse bulk buy but unless that improves dramatically then I think I'll move on...

Less accident / disaster prone sequel to the first book and more believable be used of this and still fun to read. Again it's more 3.5 than 4 but good e light to get me to read the next episode...

Pretty ood time travelling romp, but just to many disasters and cock ups happening thorough out to make it believable that the organisation would still exist. Surely someone would have closed them down and given the job to do own less accident prone? But if you can get over this it's quite fun, more a 3.5 than 4.

Update : well I'm truly hooked on this series now. I got over the teams disaster magnet status and just really love the characters, the way they talk and act and their adventures. The baddie gets seriously irritating after a while but apart from that I'm eagerly anticipating the next 50 the books!

The second volume continues te style of the first with the TV style cliff hangers at the end of many sections which as I said about the first book can be a bit repetitive and irritating as we already know the answer to most of these cliff hangers. Despite this the book is a very good and eat read history ‘light' book. The characters develop almost like in a novel and you are made to care about them - which I liked. Overall very good book and I'm looking forward to the third installment.

The style of writing of the book is very ‘made for TV' with cliff hanger style ends to each chapter, which began to become a bit repetitive - especially as you already know the answer to these cliff hangers. But overall very enjoyable and easily readable history ‘light' of the early period of the second world war. The characters you follow throughout the booked are made to come alive and you feel for them rather than it being a more staid account of their lives which I liked. Some of the assertions the books make are perhaps big leaps of faith but are plausible. I enjoyed the book overall and will read the next volume.

Hell's gone to Hell! how can you make Hell actually worse? You're set to find out in this Richmond adventure as Hell gets the beaurocratic makeover. Ingenious idea and a fun adventure make another great read.

Loved this, as usual great characters, great jokes and good plot.

I'm obviously getting old and forgetful now as I am struggling a bit with keeping up with all the characters, various plot twists and acronyms. but even so I really love the books and Peter Grant. Funny, well written and clever - but I wish there was a way to easily look up all the acronyms in particular. come on Ben, help us old forgetful fogies out a bit please!

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I do enjoy Alex and the gangs adventures but I'll be pleased to see a conclusion to the Richard and Morden storyline. even though I love Morden as the super calm and ever so polite bad guy. I feel it's a bit dragged out and am a big disappointed it didn't get resolved in this installment. Its still a good book and enjoyable though but If I knew that the next book wouldn't finish the storyline I don't think I'd buy it. Alex is hated by almost everyone and in my mind there's only so long he should survive in a world full of super powerful hostile mages who all want him dead and the longer he survives the less believable the story is (for me). I still love the characters though!

Alex is in trouble this time! He's always managed to wriggle out of situations but in this novel the trouble keeps piling up and threatens to swamp him and his friends. The light mages and the dark mages V Alex... can he survive? Can he win? Or is he heading to his final do that's always been hanging in the air in every novel...

Another great adventure in true Pratchett style.

I loved this Australian adventure, Rincewind isn't my favourite character in the discworld, but his adventures down under are so humorous.