A review by iphigenie72
Doctor Who: Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand by George Mann, Justin Richards, Mark Morris, Paul Finch
3.0
I'm really glad I read this as an ebook and never saw the cover properly until now because what I really found fun was guessing what monster The Doctor was dealing with. It was interesting to "hear" about stories that happened on Trenzalore in the long life of the 11th Doctor, but there's not one that's really mind blowing.
If you don't want to know about the monsters skip the rest of this review.
The first story, Let it Snow by Justin Richards was the best of the bunch. I usually liked the stories written by this author. I thought the Ice Warriors were a solid monster to start this anthology and the ending was quite clever. My only qualm is.
An Apple a Day by George Mann wasn't that bad. It took a monster that I haven't seen too much of, since I haven't read or listened to the other stories featuring The Krynoid, making it for me the first time I encountered them since seeing The Seeds of Doom. I thought the author made a good go of a monster that is not easy to present.
I quite liked Strangers in the Outland by Paul Finch probably because I'm a huge fans of the Autons (My favorite Classic DW story is Terror of the Autons) and even getting them in a small quantity is better than none at all. I guess someone who already knew this was an Autons story would already have lost half of what I found the most interesting. I thought the snow boat concept really good and that is for me what redeem this from an okay.
I thought The Dreaming by Mark Morris was better as a Mara story than the television episodes with the 5th Doctor that's not saying a lot since I didn't like those episodes at all. I just didn't feel any suspense or fear through the characters here.
Through the stories what was the most fascinating was seeing The Doctor age since centuries happen between each short. It's not the best DW book I read, but it is a decent one.
If you don't want to know about the monsters skip the rest of this review.
The first story, Let it Snow by Justin Richards was the best of the bunch. I usually liked the stories written by this author. I thought the Ice Warriors were a solid monster to start this anthology and the ending was quite clever. My only qualm is
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that it is so easy to guess the "friend" of the Ice Warriors is actually The Doctor under an another nameAn Apple a Day by George Mann wasn't that bad. It took a monster that I haven't seen too much of, since I haven't read or listened to the other stories featuring The Krynoid, making it for me the first time I encountered them since seeing The Seeds of Doom. I thought the author made a good go of a monster that is not easy to present.
I quite liked Strangers in the Outland by Paul Finch probably because I'm a huge fans of the Autons (My favorite Classic DW story is Terror of the Autons) and even getting them in a small quantity is better than none at all. I guess someone who already knew this was an Autons story would already have lost half of what I found the most interesting. I thought the snow boat concept really good and that is for me what redeem this from an okay.
I thought The Dreaming by Mark Morris was better as a Mara story than the television episodes with the 5th Doctor that's not saying a lot since I didn't like those episodes at all. I just didn't feel any suspense or fear through the characters here.
Through the stories what was the most fascinating was seeing The Doctor age since centuries happen between each short. It's not the best DW book I read, but it is a decent one.