A review by chicafrom3
Doctor Who: Kerblam! (Target Collection) by Pete McTighe

adventurous hopeful mysterious 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

The Thirteenth Doctor, Yaz, Ryan, and Graham investigate a mysterious message and get caught up in a case of anti-robot terrorism killing human workers at space Amazon. A novelization of the TV episode that tries very hard to clean up the rather muddled message of the original ending, and does a pretty good job, shifting it from "the system isn't the problem, individual people are the problem" to "this particular computer system isn't the issue, the organizations that spring up to abuse people are the problem, also mass murder isn't a good solution ever". Which is pretty sound. It also goes a long way in fleshing out the one-off characters, as the best Target novelizations do; Judy Maddox in particular gets a lot of attention.