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A review by saoki
Doctor Who: Evolution by John Peel
4.0
This feels like a good book to hand to someone that has only ever watched the new Doctor Who series, as it is a the-Doctor-plays-Sherlock-Holmes adventure, filled with fun, weirdness and Nice Hats (it is, after all, a period piece).
It doesn't spoils anything to say that the story is a play on The Hound of the Baskervilles, since anyone familiar with the Conan Doyle story will realize that within the first few pages and someone unfamiliar with it won't have anything about The Hound actually spoiled (that's Doctor Who magic for you), but it is done in such a careful and loving way that I can only assume the writer researched carefully not only the 4th Doctor's character, but also Conan Doyle's stories and their historical setting. Everything is perfectly placed. Also, Sarah Jane is specially magnificent, but I might just be biased.
It doesn't spoils anything to say that the story is a play on The Hound of the Baskervilles, since anyone familiar with the Conan Doyle story will realize that within the first few pages and someone unfamiliar with it won't have anything about The Hound actually spoiled (that's Doctor Who magic for you), but it is done in such a careful and loving way that I can only assume the writer researched carefully not only the 4th Doctor's character, but also Conan Doyle's stories and their historical setting. Everything is perfectly placed. Also, Sarah Jane is specially magnificent, but I might just be biased.