June 19

DW: Beautiful Chaos

Sooo~
this book is also from the ‘New Series Adventure‘ and featured not the ninth doctor. This book is featuring the tenth Doctor (which is with two and one some of my favorite Doctors) and Donna Noble. I love them both and i love their dynamic. I am a big fan of the families of the companions. I loved Jackie Tyler so much and Donnas family is a little different. Yes i like Wilf but her mother is not really sympatic. But thats why i really like Donnas family and the stories with them. Their characters have a real depth and the book don’t disappoint as in that point. The characters are really well written. One of the interesting thing are the inside of the character of Donnas mother. This side we didn’t see very often in the serie. So from the characters it is really worth to read it.

The story plays with the knowledge of the character ark of Donna. So how don’t know who the story of Donna ends, should read the book and don’t read more of this entry.

The Prolog just starts with what we know. Donna didn’t know anything and Wilf is looking in the stars for a sign of the Doctor. Than the main story starts. But just the start creates a very emotional story and the end just hangs above our heads the whole time. So lets talk about the main story. To be honest it is a good story but not the best one. For me there are to many loose ends and just the story wouldn’t be really satisfying. Maybe it is also because it reminds me a little of the Sontoran Story – Poison Sky. But with the characters and all the emotions and so one i can overlook every loose end.

I really enjoyed reading it. One of the best Doctor Who book i read.

Good Night

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June 10

DW: Festival of Death

So guys,
after yesterday a really beautiful day. It was 36° and i was swimming in the pool and lying in the sun with friends and ice cream. I have found at the nigth time to read the end of ‘Festival of Death’. So, hear my opinion of the book:

It is the fourth book of the 50th Anniversary Collection (Past Doctor Adventures) and is featuring the fourth Doctor (Tom Baker).

The first thing i have to say is that the fourth doctor was totally not my doctor. I was really really happy when i could start with the fifth Doctor. I love his companions but he never really got into my heart. So here he is travling with Romana. I am not totally sure what version of Romana plays in this book, but i think it his Romana II (Lalla Ward). She is totally more my thing than Romana I. Lalla plays her a lot more relaxed. We meet also K9 and really is there someone who don’t like K9?!

But lets talk about the book. The start don’t get me. There is the Prolog, with the what is going on effect. Than we have the Doctor and Romana, than we have the Nyanna part and so one. For my the start is to erratic and you don’t know what happen, why it happen and who the people are, the good thing about the book is the Doctor and Romana are as clueless as you.

Then you have this ‘Beautiful Death’ Event. It is interessting theme. But i don’t get the people are doing it. They die and than came back. So they can see heaven. I am sure that i will go past this attraction.

You have no clue what is going on in the book and than it goes really timeywhimey. So don’t get what is happen. They exist in two time streams and also are going again and than going again back in time. As i know now the doctor goes at least four times back in time to do things and to save the people he knows that they have to survive. I didn’t really make sence to me but i hope to the end every thing is logic. But i don’t believe it yet, because everytime you think are coming to an end and the Doctor is not going back in time again, he hears that he is.

The book just had theme that i find really unlogic with time travel. There is no starting point and that is kinda … unsatisfying… but Romana as also problems with this idea and that is a reason i can live with it. I like the questions that are asked her. They know who dies and can they do something to save them? Have they the right to save them? But are they kinda at fault with they don’t try it? But it is sad they don’t have much time with this questiones. They are mentioned and they say such things about life and the posiblity to change your mistakes.

At the end I would say it is not a bad book but they better ones.  If you like this timmey-whimmey stuff and circles of no real beginning and so on, it is a really good book. But i don’t like this style of stories. For me such things don’t make sense in the end.

But yeah for everyone else a real good book 😉

Have a nice day everyone 🙂

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June 9

DW: The Stealers of Dreams

Hi Guys,
for me is nearlly midnight. So not look to close. After the disappointing book, i startet to read the next book of ‘New Series Adventure‘ with mixed feelings. I didn’t want to have to high expectations, but lets talk about the important things.
This book is featuring the ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Captain Jack Harkness. To take the main opinion first, i liked it.

For the most time all three are on their own. Jack is totally like we know and love him. He don’t need the Doctor to get shit done. So doesn’t Rose. Of course at the end of the day the Doctor saves everyone. But i think the book shown really good the strength and weaks of the the characters. Also it is one of the few books with really good secondary characters. They are not all sympatic but interesting.

The Story is not the best, but it’s kinda interessting. What fiction can do to us? Or what the absend of fiction do to us? That are the questions that came up in the book. Dreams are such a big and interesting theme and i like what they do with it. What is realty and what is a dream? I like how they play with it.  The end is a little bit hasted and anti-climatic. But on the other hand i can’t really imagine an other good end.

So yeah definitly not the best book but totally not the worst. I think it is a nice entertaiment.

Good night.

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June 4

DW: Only Human

Hi Guys ,

we have the middle of the week, yeah. Not long and it is weekend a long weekend in germany because it is Pfingsten.

But now the the next book of the ‘New Series Adventure‘ it featured the ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack Harkness. I love Jack so i was really happy to see that he is part of the crew in this book – I am also a big fan of Torchwood. But he doesn’t have a real role in this book. They let Jack stay behind, have the adventure with out him and than take him back. Also the few scenes with him are not the Jack i love. He is too judgmental about looks. For me that is totally out of character.

So the Doctor and Rose are having their adventure. There is so much you could have done with this stuff. But it is just the ordnary story and i don’t like how modern the talking in 26185 BC. They are so much things in this story that good give a great story, but the take the must rediculess part of it and give it so much time.

What else can i say… i don’t like the book very much.

 

See ya

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June 1

DW: Winner takes all

Hi Guys,

here cames again a book  of the ‘New Serie Adventure‘ i read a while ago. It featured the ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith.

I like Mickey so i have really happy to have a little action  with him in the book. The characters are well written. So the best about the book is the interaction of the ninth Doctor with the others.

The plot idea is not a new one and i have read a lot of books with this plot idea, some was of them were better and some worse x But I think the plot works well. Just a few things could have gone little bit deeper. The whole story is just scratching the surface of the potential of the story.

Just one think really annoys me. At some point in the story are parts written from the perspectiv of a young boy and he just let is imagination run wild and thinks of himself as the choosen one. I like the conflict they want to show with that but not the kind it is written…it just got on my nervs.

 

Have a nice Sunday 🙂

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May 30

DW: The Monster Inside

Hi Guys,

here you find my really short opinion on the book ‘The Monster Inside’. I read it a while ago, so it is a really short text. The new books i read, i will try to recommend longer .

I started to read the ‘new series adventure’. It is the second book and featured the ninth Doctor (the reason i bought it) and Rose Tyler.

The most time Rose and the Doctor are seperate. This is a good thing and a bad thing. Bad because we have little interaction between these two, the good one is both parts have their action. Rose has to o things on her own and can’t relay everystep on the doctor. But this is the only good thing i can say about the book. Both are meeting an ‘old enemy’. I was excited which one they wil met, but the ‘old enemies’ of the doctor are a let down. I really don’t know why they are so often in the first season and also find their way in the SJA.

Nice try but not more of it.

 

See ya!

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May 28

Last of the Gaderene

Good morning everyone!

The third book of the 50th Anniversary Collection (Past Doctor Adventures) is a really disapointed book.

It featured third Doctor (Jo Pertwee) and Jo Grant. The third doctor is not my doctor, but i love everything about the seasons with him. I love his awesome companions and i love UNIT. So i was really excited to read this book.

At first they are so much person and perspectivs to read… it was like every site was about someone else. I like more perspectiv stories but this was way to much.

But my hope were up because it was old friend of the brig who needed help. But there is not much brig action and the scenes we get it doesn’t feel like the brig. This goes for all the characteres for example Benton and Yates.

But the worst was Jo. Most time in the book she waited for the doctor, who left her out of danger. After the first half of the book Mark Gatiss seems to remember who is writting and that Jo never waits. So we have one little scene with Jo being Jo and then she not boing anything for the rest of the story. She is such a great componian but i really don’t like the same she is in the book.

Have a nice day 🙂

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