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michidoc's review
4.0
A nice little book to enjoy over and over: it is a gamebook, in which you can decide what the Doctor does at the end of each chapter. You do not read it from start to finish, but you follow the story, and I love those! I really recommend it.
apolodelimalimon's review
3.0
Bueno, he leído ya varias opciones de este libro y creo que ya va siendo la hora de marcarlo como leído...
Se nota que no sería jamás el Doctor, porque todas las elecciones que tomo acaban con la historia yendo fatal así que... bueno. Es mi primera experiencia en este tipo de historias en las que eliges tú y la verdad es que me lo he pasado bastante bien. La historia es sencillita, nada del otro mundo, tampoco, y las opciones aunque limitadas están bien hiladas y aunque un poco cortas, te llevan más o menos hacia el target en el que está enfocado el libro, que supongo que será un target un tanto más joven que el resto de libros.
Aun así, el libro está bien para pasar un rato y ya digo, nada del otro mundo.
Se nota que no sería jamás el Doctor, porque todas las elecciones que tomo acaban con la historia yendo fatal así que... bueno. Es mi primera experiencia en este tipo de historias en las que eliges tú y la verdad es que me lo he pasado bastante bien. La historia es sencillita, nada del otro mundo, tampoco, y las opciones aunque limitadas están bien hiladas y aunque un poco cortas, te llevan más o menos hacia el target en el que está enfocado el libro, que supongo que será un target un tanto más joven que el resto de libros.
Aun así, el libro está bien para pasar un rato y ya digo, nada del otro mundo.
bookish_brooklyn's review
4.0
This was yet another fabulous buddy read with Natalia. We were both pleasantly surprised with how 12 was actually written as canon, for once. And we had a lot of fun swapping pictures and talking about our choices as we were reading :)
nwhyte's review
3.0
https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/3233521.html
As with Green's previous game book, The Horror of Howling Hill, this is set in southern England - 18th century Cornwall, to be precise - and is rather well written, capturing the Capaldi Doctor very well. It has several different storylines, most of which revolve around the Kraa'Kn (an aquatic alien monster, of course) with a galactic smuggler and a barmaid playing walk-on roles, but other variants include the Terileptils and a brief appearance of a clockwork robot. There are numerous endings, including one in which the Doctor is killed by zombies and another in which he is stuck in a perpetual time loop.
A structural gimmick which was new to me - at several points your choice is constrained by what has happened before, eg chapter 78:
- If the Doctor has already visited the Hispaniola Inn, go to 142.
- If not, go to 103.
This is a very interesting way of creating new lines through the structure. Unfortunately it's a bit too clever - there is a set of five chapters, starting with Chapter 12, which are orphaned (and I couldn't see where they were meant to fit - Chapter 12 starts with the Doctor heading toward the village with the smuggler, but no other chapter offers that as an option).
Anyway, more interesting than I expected.
As with Green's previous game book, The Horror of Howling Hill, this is set in southern England - 18th century Cornwall, to be precise - and is rather well written, capturing the Capaldi Doctor very well. It has several different storylines, most of which revolve around the Kraa'Kn (an aquatic alien monster, of course) with a galactic smuggler and a barmaid playing walk-on roles, but other variants include the Terileptils and a brief appearance of a clockwork robot. There are numerous endings, including one in which the Doctor is killed by zombies and another in which he is stuck in a perpetual time loop.
A structural gimmick which was new to me - at several points your choice is constrained by what has happened before, eg chapter 78:
- If the Doctor has already visited the Hispaniola Inn, go to 142.
- If not, go to 103.
This is a very interesting way of creating new lines through the structure. Unfortunately it's a bit too clever - there is a set of five chapters, starting with Chapter 12, which are orphaned (and I couldn't see where they were meant to fit - Chapter 12 starts with the Doctor heading toward the village with the smuggler, but no other chapter offers that as an option).
Anyway, more interesting than I expected.
kribu's review against another edition
3.0
I'm not entirely sure how one marks a book like this finished, and I'm fairly certain I haven't managed to explore all the possible story threads, but frankly, the book smells so bad that I can't seem to spend more than 8-10 minutes at a time with it before feeling like throwing up (yeah, I know, I'm supposed to love "the feel and smell of real books" but the combination of paper and ink is awful in this one, sorry).
So I'll probably be dipping in and out whenever I feel like it, but for the time being, I'm marking it finished since I've read at least a fair amount of the possibilities.
And. Well.
I didn't grow up with books of the "choose your own adventure" kind so maybe that's the problem, and obviously I'm not the target audience anyway, but whatever the reason, I'm not really getting on with the format. Maybe if the bits were longer? As it is, it seems I've spent twice as much time flipping the pages and trying to locate the next bit than I have reading, and this means a very disjointed reading experience.
Other than that - does it feel like all I'm doing is complaining? because it feels like that to me, oops - I actually enjoyed the story bits (that I could locate and tease out and make sense of) well enough. There's one with the Terileptils that was okay. And some possibilities involving Bess the barmaid that were promising.
Ultimately, I do think I'm just, well, not really the right audience for this. I'd much prefer a book of straightforward short stories - or barring that, a book with much longer sections between making one choice or another. But since it seems we're not getting any actual novels, or anything beyond comics featuring the Twelfth Doctor at all this year (other than the Christmas special on TV), this new line will have to do, I suppose. A chopped up, disjointed, ultimately quite unsatisfying Twelve is still better than no Twelve at all, after all.
... How far I have fallen.
So I'll probably be dipping in and out whenever I feel like it, but for the time being, I'm marking it finished since I've read at least a fair amount of the possibilities.
And. Well.
I didn't grow up with books of the "choose your own adventure" kind so maybe that's the problem, and obviously I'm not the target audience anyway, but whatever the reason, I'm not really getting on with the format. Maybe if the bits were longer? As it is, it seems I've spent twice as much time flipping the pages and trying to locate the next bit than I have reading, and this means a very disjointed reading experience.
Other than that - does it feel like all I'm doing is complaining? because it feels like that to me, oops - I actually enjoyed the story bits (that I could locate and tease out and make sense of) well enough. There's one with the Terileptils that was okay. And some possibilities involving Bess the barmaid that were promising.
Ultimately, I do think I'm just, well, not really the right audience for this. I'd much prefer a book of straightforward short stories - or barring that, a book with much longer sections between making one choice or another. But since it seems we're not getting any actual novels, or anything beyond comics featuring the Twelfth Doctor at all this year (other than the Christmas special on TV), this new line will have to do, I suppose. A chopped up, disjointed, ultimately quite unsatisfying Twelve is still better than no Twelve at all, after all.
... How far I have fallen.
squidbag's review against another edition
4.0
More fun than it is good, because of the "Choose the Future" format. Still manages to be a recognizable Doctor Who story, though, with all that this entails. Brilliantly well put together, I thought, but I found that I am perhaps too old to be flipping pages back and forth this much. I got three distinct tales out of this before I had a section overlap, so definitely worth the money and Fall Break reading time.
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