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lucyjackson267's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
hanclan's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
mvrkws's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
h3dakota's review against another edition
2.0
Terribly boring. I'm SO not a fan of 11 & Amy, which doesn't help, but this story was just so boring.
traci1974's review against another edition
3.0
I wonder why so many of the books separate the Doctor from his companions in their stories. I'm assuming they feel it adds to the drama, but I much prefer it when they're together and bounce their personalities off one another. This one was ok. A little heavy handed with its message at times, but the characterizations were pretty good.
tom724148's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
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? No
3.5
diewachen's review against another edition
3.0
There's part of me that longs for the days that the Doctor Who books were written for an older audience, and this book is no exception.
The introduction had unnecessary confusion, in some extraneous attempt to make the alien race seem more human than the humans on the junk planet. It didn't really help the story, especially since the secondary characters were written well enough—even over-the-top characters like “Dirk Slipstream” (who reminded me of Ace Rimmer with the voice and mustache of Terry O'Quinn). You might think the story is simply too much if you add in the Pioneer 10 cliché (that satellite gets around in sci-fi universes), overly-blatant anti-religion subtext, and the now common DW rush to the finish (comet hits in 100 minutes, Doctor's at the edge of an acid lake with a spear poking at his back, Amy's outside the enemy base, nanobomb's set to go off, and there's something weird in the Gobocorp ship. Whatever will happen?).
Fortunately, where Llewellyn fails with cliché and excess, he succeeds with dialogue and characters. He does a fantastic job of presenting the Doctor and Amy. The voices are spot on, and its easy to see them in this adventure. The Sittuun, the major alien race present in this story, were interesting, if not fully developed. Slipstream is obnoxious at first, but makes for an interesting foil as the story progresses.
Overall, the book is a simple read and the interactions between the Doctor and Amy make it worth picking up. Personally, I love the Matt Smith Doctor and Amy, and any opportunity to see them in action is one I'll take. This isn't the best Doctor Who book I've ever read, but it was good fun and I wouldn't mind trying another book by Llewellyn in the future.
The introduction had unnecessary confusion, in some extraneous attempt to make the alien race seem more human than the humans on the junk planet. It didn't really help the story, especially since the secondary characters were written well enough—even over-the-top characters like “Dirk Slipstream” (who reminded me of Ace Rimmer with the voice and mustache of Terry O'Quinn). You might think the story is simply too much if you add in the Pioneer 10 cliché (that satellite gets around in sci-fi universes), overly-blatant anti-religion subtext, and the now common DW rush to the finish (comet hits in 100 minutes, Doctor's at the edge of an acid lake with a spear poking at his back, Amy's outside the enemy base, nanobomb's set to go off, and there's something weird in the Gobocorp ship. Whatever will happen?).
Fortunately, where Llewellyn fails with cliché and excess, he succeeds with dialogue and characters. He does a fantastic job of presenting the Doctor and Amy. The voices are spot on, and its easy to see them in this adventure. The Sittuun, the major alien race present in this story, were interesting, if not fully developed. Slipstream is obnoxious at first, but makes for an interesting foil as the story progresses.
Overall, the book is a simple read and the interactions between the Doctor and Amy make it worth picking up. Personally, I love the Matt Smith Doctor and Amy, and any opportunity to see them in action is one I'll take. This isn't the best Doctor Who book I've ever read, but it was good fun and I wouldn't mind trying another book by Llewellyn in the future.
beth_books_123's review against another edition
2.0
What a pile of crap - 2*
Snore. This book definitely helped me to sleep. The plot was drivel and just so lackluster. The humans were the enemies and yeah I got it. It had some promise but The 11th Doctor and Amy were separated, which seemed to also mean that their personalities were separated.
Dull. I can't even be bothered to write a decent review about this.
Snore. This book definitely helped me to sleep. The plot was drivel and just so lackluster. The humans were the enemies and yeah I got it. It had some promise but The 11th Doctor and Amy were separated, which seemed to also mean that their personalities were separated.
Dull. I can't even be bothered to write a decent review about this.
sabregirl's review against another edition
5.0
This book was really enjoyable. While some of the other who books I read (all Ten) have a really good characterization of Ten--Eleven in this book was still being developed which is interesting and good at the same time because this presumable takes place right after The Beast Below as there are mentions of Amy running around on a ship in her nightie. I enjoyed that, bringing in little mentions of the previous adventures to give the reader a time line. It was also interesting to see mentions of past experiences of the Doctor like with Slipstream, it's not clear when the Doctor met him but he did and there was a past there. With the Doctor traveling around the universe and time as much as he does it's surprising he doesn't run into the same people a lot of the time. The nanties reminded me of the nanogenes that were introduced in The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances but with the opposite effect of deconstructing instead of making new. As morbid as it sounds I like that the Doctor couldn't save the 'Human's' they were too enraptured with their own fake history that they probably wouldn't have surprised on the real Earth anyways. But his reaction to losing them was an interesting one, and one we still don't really grasp even after Jamal said he saved billions more people than he realized.
caresays's review against another edition
3.0
Pretty average. Decently entertaining for a book based on a television. Some amusing interactions between Amy and the Doctor.