A review by allaboutfrodo
Doctor Who: Shada by Gareth Roberts

4.0

This is my first Doctor Who novel, and I chose it because the original story was written by Douglas Adams. I thought it was ridiculously silly but I enjoyed it.

"Chris staggered in an ungainly fashion after the Doctor and Romana. So it was Sunday morning, and he was carrying a robot dog up some slippery steps into an invisible alien spaceship. Nobody was ever going to believe this."

I enjoyed the Oxford setting, and the Adams humor is definitely present. I'm a Doctor Who latecomer and have never seen any episodes with the Fourth Doctor, so I just imagined him as the Tenth (although that definitely made for some continuity errors). The Doctor as seen in this book seemed more like the Tenth than the Ninth or Eleventh. Definitely worth a read for a Whovian or Douglas Adams fan.