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fancyfroggie's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
mollreads's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
tense
medium-paced
2.75
Is Doctor Who technically a programme for children? Yes.
Do I still watch and love it at 17? YES
So I picked up this book from the library (It was in the children's section which I was very upset about) as anything Doctor Who? I'm there.
The overall plot was good, I liked the characters and there were a few parts that were funny but I wasn't the biggest fan of it overall.
I found that the doctor was written to be quite one dimensional (see what I did there? dimensional in space? 😉) when in the show I think the doctor is one of the most complex characters that you could find.
I found that to be a little bit off putting but the rest of the characters were written really well, it was fast paced towards the end and I really liked the ending, I thought it wrapped everything up well!
I'm now on a mission to read a lot of doctor who books. I'm having withdrawal symptoms after watching the New Years Special, sad times.
Do I still watch and love it at 17? YES
So I picked up this book from the library (It was in the children's section which I was very upset about) as anything Doctor Who? I'm there.
The overall plot was good, I liked the characters and there were a few parts that were funny but I wasn't the biggest fan of it overall.
I found that the doctor was written to be quite one dimensional (see what I did there? dimensional in space? 😉) when in the show I think the doctor is one of the most complex characters that you could find.
I found that to be a little bit off putting but the rest of the characters were written really well, it was fast paced towards the end and I really liked the ending, I thought it wrapped everything up well!
I'm now on a mission to read a lot of doctor who books. I'm having withdrawal symptoms after watching the New Years Special, sad times.
nwhyte's review against another edition
3.0
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2160540.html[return][return]A rather decent standalone Eleventh Doctor adventure, in which he gets drawn back to the First World War where the basic concept of Victory of the Daleks is brought into an arms race plot where the evil pepperpots have persuaded arms manufacturers on both sides to construct the great new fighting machines; shades also of three great Troughton stories, The War Games and the two Dalek ones, repackaged for a new generation with Justin Richards' lucid prose and Collins' superb art. It doesn't take the Doctor anywhere terribly new but retreads old ground with confidence.
simplyparticular's review against another edition
3.0
An enjoyable read, but a way too pat ending. I keep forgetting these are really aimed at children.
ghreggori's review against another edition
5.0
This was great. The best Doctor Who book I've read since 'Touched by an Angel'. Highly recommended.
sshabein's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this, and what a treat to have new Ninth Doctor content again. The tone of these stories is very much in line with his televised stories, even with them occurring pre-Rose.
plaidbrarian's review against another edition
1.0
Abandoned. Takes a very long time to get going, and then meanders all around once it finally does. Plus, although I've enjoyed Doctor Who since I was a child, even then I didn't tend to like it when the stories involved children, as this one does. The Doctor never does "nurturing" very well. Also, I'm over halfway through the book and the plot has thus far involved *maybe* 3 Daleks, one of which was a lawyer. Yeah. Let that one sit roll around in your brain a while. Nick Briggs does a great job as the voices of the Daleks and the Cybermen on the show, and in his producer role at Big Finish he has been involved with the creation of some truly great Doctor Who stories. But this is not one of them.
thebooktree's review against another edition
2.0
More of a 2.5.
This book had such an interesting premise in the world of Doctor Who. A set of planets that are run by the Daleks as a false utopia for humans. It had so much promise, but unfortunately, didn't deliver on it.
I feel as if, overall, nothing really happened in this book. It's relatively short, clocking in at just over 250 pages, but it was still slow to read. Not to mention the narration was surprisingly monotone. 11 was such a fun, ridiculous doctor, always running at 100 mph, but the narration in this didn't give that impression. The sentences were constructed in such basic forms (and quite often with similar length and syntax) that overall it felt more like the Daleks were presenting the story than the Doctor himself.
I've had some very mixed interactions with the Doctor Who novels. From the three I've read, I've had a 5 star, a 1 star, and now smack in the middle at 2.5. I keep coming back to them in hopes of finding another 5 star read set in this wonderfully ridiculous world, but I think it's time for me to give up on the novelizations.
This book had such an interesting premise in the world of Doctor Who. A set of planets that are run by the Daleks as a false utopia for humans. It had so much promise, but unfortunately, didn't deliver on it.
I feel as if, overall, nothing really happened in this book. It's relatively short, clocking in at just over 250 pages, but it was still slow to read. Not to mention the narration was surprisingly monotone. 11 was such a fun, ridiculous doctor, always running at 100 mph, but the narration in this didn't give that impression. The sentences were constructed in such basic forms (and quite often with similar length and syntax) that overall it felt more like the Daleks were presenting the story than the Doctor himself.
I've had some very mixed interactions with the Doctor Who novels. From the three I've read, I've had a 5 star, a 1 star, and now smack in the middle at 2.5. I keep coming back to them in hopes of finding another 5 star read set in this wonderfully ridiculous world, but I think it's time for me to give up on the novelizations.
squidbag's review against another edition
3.0
A fairly standard Dalek story with typical time-bending structure and a mystery at the core, but one when solved, cascades quickly into yet another twist. The differences here would be the floppy heart(s) at the center of the story, a companionless 11th Doctor who cannot help but meddle due to curiosity, and how that gets used as a paradox-inducing tool by him/against him/for him, AND the fact that this was written by the voice of the Daleks, Nicholas Briggs, who does as good a job writing realistic children as he does heavy Daleks, but leaves us a couple of minor loose ends in the process. Otherwise, a firmly distracting read.
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