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rfelt's review against another edition
4.0
Combining Choose Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who? Too good to be true. This time, I traveled with 10 and Martha (who happens to be my favorite 10 companion so hoorah) and we saved lots of people and yup. My only complaint is I wish the choices were more geared toward what would I do in this situation rather than choose the plot. Like, "Do you follow the Doctor or do you hit the button" something like that instead of "if you see a planet outside the window go here or if you see a spaceship go here." But onto future adventures!
bookish_brooklyn's review against another edition
3.0
That was exceptionally confusing. Full review to come.
christytidwell's review
2.0
This was a gimmick purchase. I love Doctor Who and I have extremely fond memories of Choose Your Own Adventure books from my childhood. I was interested to see the two things combined. Unfortunately, it was kind of a disappointment. This is a fun group activity for nerdy Doctor Who fans (in this case, it served as entertainment for part of a road trip), but it's not as fun as either of its two components (Doctor Who and CYOA books). This is in part because the choices are not so much choices of actions for the protagonist (e.g., If you take the path to the left, turn to page 65; if you go back the way you came, turn to page 101) as they are narrative decisions (e.g., if Martha goes first, turn to page whatever; if the Doctor goes first, turn to page some-other-number), which takes away a good portion of the reader's sense of agency and control over the story. This approach also leads to some choices that aren't really choices but simply directions to turn to one page or the other depending on whether you chose alien or human, for instance, at some earlier point. Furthermore, it seems that there's no choice that leads to your death (or anyone else's, for that matter). One of the exciting things about the Choose Your Own Adventure books was that you could actually choose wrong and die. If that's removed, then this is just an inconvenient way to read a not-terribly-exciting short story.
On the other hand, there were weird aliens and Space Cops in this book, which was fun.
I plan to read at least one more of these to see if they're all this disappointing or if it's just the first one (maybe they get better!), but I don't have high hopes.
On the other hand, there were weird aliens and Space Cops in this book, which was fun.
I plan to read at least one more of these to see if they're all this disappointing or if it's just the first one (maybe they get better!), but I don't have high hopes.
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