Title: Deep Time
Author: Trevor Baxendale
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Broadway
My Rating: 4 Stars
I love how I can hear the voices of the Doctor and Clara while I am reading because they are such well defined characters with the connection to the show.
This story would make a truly frightening episode in the series, seeing how many characters died in horrific ways. (Moffat, make this into an episode instead of all the dumb stories you're making now...)
You have probably gotten the impression that I have some issues with the writing of the recent episodes in the series, and I think that has some influence on the writing of this book. The Doctor seems to no longer care about saving people as much as he did in the past, and doesn't even always care about himself. In this novel, when the clone, Jem, is suffering from her mental connection to the space ship, the Doctor does not seem to care that she is in pain and close to dying, and instead her keeps her connected for much longer than she is comfortable with, hoping to get information from her.
I don't understand why the Doctor has suddenly changed to this attitude. I know people have said that it's because he is older and more like the original incarnation of the Doctor, but going with the story line...he should be the happiest Doctor, considering he just found out that his planet and his people hadn't been destroyed after all!
Anyway...back to the book. I think it was written very well, despite all my complaints about how the Doctor's character is now portrayed. The story was exciting and I enjoyed reading it. I do wish that the characters had been more developed, however. It would have made their death scenes much more devastating and meaningful if we had a connection to them, or at least we saw their own connections to each other more drawn out. Overall, when the the book was over, I liked it much better than I thought I would.
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**I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
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