Deep Time by Trevor Baxendale

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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The Drosten's Curse by A.L. Kennedy

**While reading my review, please keep in mind that I have a very limited knowledge of Classic Who and the Fourth Doctor.

Title: The Drosten's Curse
Author: A.L. Kennedy
Genre: Science Fiction
My Rating: 4 Stars

I enjoyed reading this book. It was written in a different style than I am used to, though it reminded me a bit of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's writing (perhaps just because they write differently than I am used to as well, I don't know)
When I started The Drosten's Curse, I didn't think that the Doctor was written at all like the Doctor usually acts. However, I didn't notice it that much as I got father into the book, and it also could have been that I just don't know the Fourth Doctor well enough to recognize his habits and mannerisms.
I really liked Bryony and Putta. They were great characters, very funny (especially when interacting with each other), and if I was the type of person to ship characters, I would probably ship them.
The antagonist in this novel was very interesting.  Conflicts in science fiction are always much more interesting when the opposing entity isn't actually "evil", they are just influenced to be so because of how they receive information. (However, this can also make the stories 10 times scarier-like The Empty Child)
Some of this book was confusing, though, and at parts it seemed to drag on...Honestly, I thought that at page 80 it could have just ended and been a novella if some of the details had been tweaked a bit.

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General Stuff About Shipping...

[Before I begin this post, I think I should let you all know that I started watching Sherlock the other day. And I love it. Here, have a funny gif:

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Okay, onto the real topic
So, being in many fandoms, obviously, shipping is a thing.

 (If you don't know what shipping is at this point, you'd better run before it's too late...) I decided to share with you a guide to my own reactions to shipping.

How I Generally Feel About Shipping:

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Though, that being said, I do have a couple that I like.
Exhibit A:

 

Okay, now that I have dumped my Doctor/Rose shipping on you, I will move on... ;)

Now, that is enough.
(shut up, I know that's three now)

Shipping I REALLY can't stand is when they do things like Johnlock, or Bilbo/Thorin, or RoseMary (even thought that is apparently canon at the moment), or Dave/John, or Frodo/Sam in ways that are <3. Then I'm just like..... *THROWS UP* ...99% of the time when this happens, that is NOT what the author wanted.


How I React When People Want to Talk to Me About Shipping:

 

 

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How I React When People Try To Put ME in a Ship:

 

so, my advice to you is this: don't try it.

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So...that's how I feel about shipping.