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nenya_kanadka's review
2.0
This book was a mixed bag for me. I'm always going to be there for space race stuff, and the virtual-reality-matrix stuff was also fascinating. Also liked Eight trying to outwit the guards and figure out WTF was going on, while occasionally being interrogated naked. ;-)
But Fitz's awful, awful, awful treatment of his girlfriends on Mechta really grated on me. Sometimes I can find Fitz charming (his uncertainties and his trying to be 'cool' and the fact that he does have a good heart) but he was just being a sexist dick in this and it wasn't fun. Seriously, all three of the relationships he has are cheating, and he has the gall to be annoyed at the women when they don't like him lying to them! Come on, Fitz. You're better than this. At least I hope you are.
Interested to see where things are going with Compassion. I still don't quite have a handle on her after half a dozen books, but of course part of the thing with Compassion is that she is just not quite human. So I'm intrigued.
But Fitz's awful, awful, awful treatment of his girlfriends on Mechta really grated on me. Sometimes I can find Fitz charming (his uncertainties and his trying to be 'cool' and the fact that he does have a good heart) but he was just being a sexist dick in this and it wasn't fun. Seriously, all three of the relationships he has are cheating, and he has the gall to be annoyed at the women when they don't like him lying to them! Come on, Fitz. You're better than this. At least I hope you are.
Interested to see where things are going with Compassion. I still don't quite have a handle on her after half a dozen books, but of course part of the thing with Compassion is that she is just not quite human. So I'm intrigued.
nwhyte's review
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This is rather a good Eighth Doctor novel, with the Doctor and the steadily improving Compassion trying to navigate a military regime which is better realised than most of the many such regimes in Who books, while Fitz (who I think is actually in more individual stories, taken across all media, than any other companion), having got separated off, settles into an ambiguous and ultimately dangerous utopia. Some of the ideas here seem to be drawn from The Matrix, though I'm not sure if the timing works out (the film came out in 1999; this book was published in 2000 and must have been in the works for a while). Stephen Cole rarely disappoints, and I don't know what Dallaire's contribution was, but I thought the characterisation of the non-regulars here was a notch above the usual standards for Who books of any era.
This is rather a good Eighth Doctor novel, with the Doctor and the steadily improving Compassion trying to navigate a military regime which is better realised than most of the many such regimes in Who books, while Fitz (who I think is actually in more individual stories, taken across all media, than any other companion), having got separated off, settles into an ambiguous and ultimately dangerous utopia. Some of the ideas here seem to be drawn from The Matrix, though I'm not sure if the timing works out (the film came out in 1999; this book was published in 2000 and must have been in the works for a while). Stephen Cole rarely disappoints, and I don't know what Dallaire's contribution was, but I thought the characterisation of the non-regulars here was a notch above the usual standards for Who books of any era.
sleepytechnokid's review
2.0
I couldn't continue, this actually my third attempt of reading this book. (The first of documenting it) I do want to continue on but I couldn't, I stopped at page 65, all that's truly memorable is the Doctor and Compassion escapes in a capsule from a space station and land on Skale which they been captured by the Military Regime of Parallel 59 as Fitz wakes up in another world. On how far I have gotten in the book it's just nothing but a run-around, with the Doctor and Compassion being Naked throughout the first portion of the book, neither of Fitz's Story doesn't help, Did I mention this Book has Two Plots.
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