evan1395's review
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
nwhyte's review
1.0
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1690475.html
An Eighth Doctor Adventure that didn't really grab me - the plot, involving an artificial cosmic doom threatening an entire solar system, very similar to the last book I read in this series, and Mortimore's writing rather undisciplined - I normally like his books and scripts more than I did this one. Poor Sam gets messed around with in mind and body.
An Eighth Doctor Adventure that didn't really grab me - the plot, involving an artificial cosmic doom threatening an entire solar system, very similar to the last book I read in this series, and Mortimore's writing rather undisciplined - I normally like his books and scripts more than I did this one. Poor Sam gets messed around with in mind and body.
sleepytechnokid's review
2.0
I wanted to read this out of curiosity but I couldn't get myself through the book because of the characterization of the Eighth Doctor was Uncomfortably Off.
julis's review
2.0
I don’t understand how the person who wrote Natural History of Fear could also write this.
It took me 3 tries and an entire year to get through it, because I kept waiting for the plot, for actual secondary characters (instead of 1 dimensional archetypes), for literally anything but a series of distantly connected scenes.
Part of it, definitely, is that what worked so well in NHF, the stark and often absent setting descriptors, doesn’t work in a novel. But also? There’s not so much a plot as sequence of events where 8 and Sam bounce around like ping pong balls. I don’t care about any of the characters, including Eight and Sam, which is an accomplishment. Despite finishing it yesterday, I couldn’t even tell you how the plot was resolved, except it had to do with nanobots. Yay.
Onward and upward?
It took me 3 tries and an entire year to get through it, because I kept waiting for the plot, for actual secondary characters (instead of 1 dimensional archetypes), for literally anything but a series of distantly connected scenes.
Part of it, definitely, is that what worked so well in NHF, the stark and often absent setting descriptors, doesn’t work in a novel. But also? There’s not so much a plot as sequence of events where 8 and Sam bounce around like ping pong balls. I don’t care about any of the characters, including Eight and Sam, which is an accomplishment. Despite finishing it yesterday, I couldn’t even tell you how the plot was resolved, except it had to do with nanobots. Yay.
Onward and upward?
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