Hard Time

So far, I think I'm enjoying the Time Police series somewhat more than the original St Mary's series. Jodi Taylor's books are consistently rather implausible and chaotic, as far as I can tell, but the Time Police seem marginally less chaotic than the historians of St Mary's, and less chaotic suits me.

What I find implausible are not just the events, but also the character development. Some novels have no character development: the characters remain the same throughout. These novels go to the other extreme: the main characters seem to me to experience implausibly rapid evolution.

To be honest, I'm no expert on human psychology, and I don't know how fast character development can be expected to work; but I'm sceptical about the way it happens here. It doesn't interfere too much with my enjoyment of the story, but it bothers me a little and seems worth mentioning.

I'm not sure how rereadable I'm going to find these books in future; I'll keep them at three stars unless I discover later that I want to reread them regularly.