DW: Sands of Time

Hey Guys,
i was fighting with this Doctor Who Book ‘Sands of Time’. It is the 22th book of the Missing Adventure Serie and get her print in the Monster Collection. The 5th Doctor is traveling with Tegan and Nyssa and it takes place after Adrics death. The whole is playing in very different time periodes.

Different Times and persons

The biggest problem of the book is that it has to many different times and views to tell. We have two sides of the view of different people. It springs in time and people and you don’t now where, when and who you are. Also nothing of this seems logic because everything the Doctor does he did because he did it before. So in this story doesn’t seemed to be a beginning and an real end. With the time everything gets clearer but i hate to read such little croutons…

An endless circle?

There is a lot of stuff not explained – just a few little things that bother me. Also this story is a circle kinda like the novel Festival of Death. It is not clear were the start point is and were the end, because the do things because they now they do it. But why did they do it in the first place? The bad people do things because they now they happend… but were did it all start.

Nyssa and Tegan

I am not a big fan of these both companions. But this book is not nice to the characters. Tegan has a little to do, but mostly she is bored and Nyssa just has do be a mummy… so they don’t have a good character arc any moments to shine. The only good thing about the book is how they play with the stories in tv serie – like Pyramids of Mars and Black Orchid