A review by sabregirl
Doctor Who: Night of the Humans by David Llewellyn

5.0

This book was really enjoyable. While some of the other who books I read (all Ten) have a really good characterization of Ten--Eleven in this book was still being developed which is interesting and good at the same time because this presumable takes place right after The Beast Below as there are mentions of Amy running around on a ship in her nightie. I enjoyed that, bringing in little mentions of the previous adventures to give the reader a time line. It was also interesting to see mentions of past experiences of the Doctor like with Slipstream, it's not clear when the Doctor met him but he did and there was a past there. With the Doctor traveling around the universe and time as much as he does it's surprising he doesn't run into the same people a lot of the time. The nanties reminded me of the nanogenes that were introduced in The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances but with the opposite effect of deconstructing instead of making new. As morbid as it sounds I like that the Doctor couldn't save the 'Human's' they were too enraptured with their own fake history that they probably wouldn't have surprised on the real Earth anyways. But his reaction to losing them was an interesting one, and one we still don't really grasp even after Jamal said he saved billions more people than he realized.