Hard Time: a bestselling time-travel adventure like no other

Four and a half stars. Jodi Taylor really knocked it out of the park with this one! Luke, Jane and Matthew make up team 236, not very affectionately known as Team Weird by the other Time Police teams. As their training draws to a close they are expected to express an interest in which department they want to join after graduation but none of them seems to have a clue. Then a politician's daughter goes on an illegal trip to the seventeenth century and gets stranded, a girl Luke once dated, and Team Weird get called on to rescue her. But what they uncover is an underground organisation running temporal tourism trips to the past. They are well equipped and ruthless. When two crack undercover Time Police hunters are murdered and their bodies sent as a warning the Commander decides the only way to infiltrate the organisation is to bring in Team Weird. Very different to the St Mary's series, the Time Police series has really hit its stride with this novel. Plot driven with some great characters, Luke in particular is one of my favourites and there are so many unanswered questions left ... Overall, if you like a book set in the future where people can travel to see Marie Antoinette in one minute then Abu Simnel the next, with wise-cracking and fire-trucking sweariness then this is the series for you. Loved it. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.