evan1395's review
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
khayes0525's review
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I was very surprised at just how good this book was. Good pace, interesting conflict, great characters, and a brilliant, surprising ending. This one's a keeper.
nwhyte's review against another edition
2.0
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1493869.html
Basically a fairly standard adventure of the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones arriving in the middle of a conflict on an alien planet; time eddies and nasty villains complicate the situation (though some of the characters seem to have remarkable powers of surviving major injuries). Remarkable for insisting, more than I remember previous volumes doing, on Sam's falling in love with the oblivious Doctor, which is of course now standard fare for New Who but was a new departure back them. And of course it turns out that this is a set-up for the ending when she and the Doctor are parted by circumstance, with several volumes to go before they are reunited.
Basically a fairly standard adventure of the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones arriving in the middle of a conflict on an alien planet; time eddies and nasty villains complicate the situation (though some of the characters seem to have remarkable powers of surviving major injuries). Remarkable for insisting, more than I remember previous volumes doing, on Sam's falling in love with the oblivious Doctor, which is of course now standard fare for New Who but was a new departure back them. And of course it turns out that this is a set-up for the ending when she and the Doctor are parted by circumstance, with several volumes to go before they are reunited.
julis's review
slow-paced
1.0
I am now caught up on the EDAs–I haven’t read one in over a month and there’s a reason for that.
I deeply disliked this book. I didn’t get along with the author’s style, I thought the good ideas (the planet) were mishandled and the bad ideas (what was UP with the aliens of the week????) were very bad, and the plot was just confusing.
nukirisame's review
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
coffee_deer's review
3.0
It took long to set the pace but once it did I just couldn't stop till I finished - embarrassed to say, I even missed some parts to get to the point of action because the tension, man! And those cliffhangers on every turn really didn't make my life any easier.
Was really surprised and even slightly shocked by the end of it - that was definitely NOT what I expected from the DW book, for some reason.
Was really surprised and even slightly shocked by the end of it - that was definitely NOT what I expected from the DW book, for some reason.
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