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saoki's review
3.0
As Virgin New Adventures go, this is a pretty good book. Everyone is properly characterized, the story feels like Doctor Who, the crazy science is the sort that makes you nod instead of scream and the fact that half of it is "what if King Kong but ALIENS" makes it endearing instead of eye-rolling.
And then the author lost the brakes and took things a bit too far on the ending.
Still a nice story for most part.
Mind you, there is a serious virgin | whore thing going on here, but no way I'll touch that, I'm not even sure the author did it on purpose.
And then the author lost the brakes and took things a bit too far on the ending.
Still a nice story for most part.
Mind you, there is a serious virgin | whore thing going on here, but no way I'll touch that, I'm not even sure the author did it on purpose.
nwhyte's review
4.0
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2088942.html[return][return]excellent pastiche of King Kong: the Doctor and Liz, and eventually UNIT as well, are dragged back to the Pacific in 1934 where an alien presence is threatening to destroy the world as we know it, and at the same time must deal with leakage from a parallel timeline. Very entertaining, with an ingeniously imagined alien which finds our planet too cold for it to function, and a villain who is not so much evil as just vain and not very bright; I think this is the best of Bulis's Who books that I have read (and I have read seven others).
sleepytechnokid's review
3.0
I wanted to give this book four stars but the story is not what I sort of expected to be, but I still like its book, it was enjoyable and rather quick and like the idea of The Doctor a Liz being stranded on an island that apparently doesn't exist and inhabited by creatures that been mutated by size by alien drugs that came from a crashed ship that resides in a Volcano that due to erupt that will completely destroy the island.
bookswithike's review
3.0
This is an interesting one. I'm not quite sure how to review it.
The Eye of the Giant follows a small expedition to the hidden island of Salutua in 1934, ostensibly to film a movie. Nearly forty years later, UNIT discovers an alien artefact that Liz and the Doctor track to Salutua 1934. The only problem is Salutua doesn't exist in the present day, and the Doctor and Liz are stuck there.
I'll start by saying that this is exactly what I wanted from a Third Doctor novel. It really feels like a classic 70s Doctor Who story. You can even tell where the episode breaks would be if it were on TV. The Doctor, Liz, the Brigadier and all the rest are written perfectly and really feel authentic to the TV versions of their characters. All in all, it's a good fun romp.
The prose is a little dense in places, mainly due to the sheer amount of pseudo-scientific technobabble, but for the most part it's fun, fast-paced and interesting. There are even quite a few moments that are genuinely disturbing, or terrifying, and there's some good humour.
The characters are decent, but a little bit flat. Some have a little bit of development, but really not enough to make them particularly memorable. Brokk had the most interesting POV chapters, because of how thoroughly inhuman and disconnected from the world he was.
The fact that neither of the alien races featured in the book communicated verbally made for a fun gimmick, and allowed for a little comedy, but I think it would have been more interesting and engaging if the reader could actually tell what they were saying.
The plot itself is simple, but manages to be engaging for the majority of the book.
The majority of it.
The main problem with this book is that it has three endings. And unfortunately, the first ending is the best. The second ending is not as good, but is still fun, and manages to stay within the realms of acceptable sci-fi. The third and final ending is just plain weird, devolves into metaphysical fantasy, but is thankfully rescued by a vaguely scientific explanation for events given right at the end.
Overall it was a good, fun Doctor Who story, but it won't be going on my favourites list.
The Eye of the Giant follows a small expedition to the hidden island of Salutua in 1934, ostensibly to film a movie. Nearly forty years later, UNIT discovers an alien artefact that Liz and the Doctor track to Salutua 1934. The only problem is Salutua doesn't exist in the present day, and the Doctor and Liz are stuck there.
I'll start by saying that this is exactly what I wanted from a Third Doctor novel. It really feels like a classic 70s Doctor Who story. You can even tell where the episode breaks would be if it were on TV. The Doctor, Liz, the Brigadier and all the rest are written perfectly and really feel authentic to the TV versions of their characters. All in all, it's a good fun romp.
The prose is a little dense in places, mainly due to the sheer amount of pseudo-scientific technobabble, but for the most part it's fun, fast-paced and interesting. There are even quite a few moments that are genuinely disturbing, or terrifying, and there's some good humour.
The characters are decent, but a little bit flat. Some have a little bit of development, but really not enough to make them particularly memorable. Brokk had the most interesting POV chapters, because of how thoroughly inhuman and disconnected from the world he was.
The fact that neither of the alien races featured in the book communicated verbally made for a fun gimmick, and allowed for a little comedy, but I think it would have been more interesting and engaging if the reader could actually tell what they were saying.
The plot itself is simple, but manages to be engaging for the majority of the book.
The majority of it.
The main problem with this book is that it has three endings. And unfortunately, the first ending is the best. The second ending is not as good, but is still fun, and manages to stay within the realms of acceptable sci-fi. The third and final ending is just plain weird, devolves into metaphysical fantasy, but is thankfully rescued by a vaguely scientific explanation for events given right at the end.
Overall it was a good, fun Doctor Who story, but it won't be going on my favourites list.
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