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A review by frakalot
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Cat-People by Gary Russell
2.0
A Second Doctor story about a terribly unappealing adventure.
My main problem was that I found the evil, singing, gypsy kittens unimpressive and their tarot guided, mystical plan was perfectly uninteresting. It isn't that I didn't buy it. The Whoniverse is full of ridiculous aliens with equally ridiculous plots. It just isn't an intriguing concept to me. Maybe it's because I'm not a cat person. Maybe it's because...
This book started off well written but it descended below my minimum decency bar. There's actually a lot more historical and political commentary than I would call reasonable. Kudos for doing some background and aiming at some cultural content but a major fart in your general direction for a disrespectful attempt.
The way the author described scenery and the darker events was a positive aspect of the writing, it gets fairly devilish at times even if not appealing. The main team are often recognisable, The Doctor especially so, although it's becoming par for the course that many of the authors do slip up on this at times and this one did that too.
This still managed to have some fun moments, it also had a fair sprinkling of gore in it. I'm glad I read it... but this one is only for the completionists among us. Nothing special.
My main problem was that I found the evil, singing, gypsy kittens unimpressive and their tarot guided, mystical plan was perfectly uninteresting. It isn't that I didn't buy it. The Whoniverse is full of ridiculous aliens with equally ridiculous plots. It just isn't an intriguing concept to me. Maybe it's because I'm not a cat person. Maybe it's because...
This book started off well written but it descended below my minimum decency bar. There's actually a lot more historical and political commentary than I would call reasonable. Kudos for doing some background and aiming at some cultural content but a major fart in your general direction for a disrespectful attempt.
The way the author described scenery and the darker events was a positive aspect of the writing, it gets fairly devilish at times even if not appealing. The main team are often recognisable, The Doctor especially so, although it's becoming par for the course that many of the authors do slip up on this at times and this one did that too.
This still managed to have some fun moments, it also had a fair sprinkling of gore in it. I'm glad I read it... but this one is only for the completionists among us. Nothing special.