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A review by sleepey
Doctor Who: The Blood Cell by James Goss
dark
mysterious
4.0
I've seen a few reviews saying this book starts slow & picks up toward the end, but personally I would flip that around -- the first half is perfectly paced to build up the characters & the mystery, and then it kind of runs off the rails later on.
For the most part, there's a good balance of tension & humour to keep the pages turning without it getting exhausting (& somehow this works despite half the jokes just being lame, barely-motivated pop culture references). But then in the course of 1 single chapter it just starts blasting out all sorts of twist reveals & political intrigue, everything becomes incredibly charged & convoluted, & the main mystery suddenly becomes where any of it could possibly be going.
There's a final boss at the end of this book, & I honestly couldn't tell you why anyone did anything in that whole chapter. But I think I enjoyed it anyway? It's bewildering in a fun way, like a really good B-movie (and gory like one too, fyi)
For the most part, there's a good balance of tension & humour to keep the pages turning without it getting exhausting (& somehow this works despite half the jokes just being lame, barely-motivated pop culture references). But then in the course of 1 single chapter it just starts blasting out all sorts of twist reveals & political intrigue, everything becomes incredibly charged & convoluted, & the main mystery suddenly becomes where any of it could possibly be going.
There's a final boss at the end of this book, & I honestly couldn't tell you why anyone did anything in that whole chapter. But I think I enjoyed it anyway? It's bewildering in a fun way, like a really good B-movie (and gory like one too, fyi)