Dave Rudden
Forfatter af Knights of the Borrowed Dark
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Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: Canaries 2 eksemplarer
Tenebris - Die Rückkehr der dunklen Prinzessin 2 eksemplarer
Det lånade mörkrets riddare 1 eksemplar
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Damn Faeries — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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One of my biggest criticisms is that you can't really "hear" the individual Doctors in the stories, with perhaps the exception of the Ninth Doctor in "A Day to Yourselves." Fully half the stories seem to be set more or less in the Eleventh Doctor's era, but he only shows up twice, and fairly generically. The same thing happens with the Tenth- and Twelfth-centric stories, as well as a cameo appearance by the Fifth Doctor. One story focuses on a Seventh Doctor who calls characters "my dear," but the Thirteenth Doctor gets at least a little of her typical phrasing in. And that's it - a seemingly strange choice to rarely focus on the Doctors or what makes each one unique, although possibly guided by the success of Rudden's last Who collection, which was all villain-based tales.
The two best stories are the aforementioned "A Day to Yourselves" and "Christmas with the Plasmavores," both of which have a great sense of comic timing. Unfortunately, the actual concepts in some of the others, such "We Will Feed You to the Trees," are often more interesting, but they're just too simple and tidy, and without a laugh or two that becomes much more obvious.
I'm sure a child of 9 to 12, as the book was intended for, would enjoy this collection. However, particularly if that reader would be interested in any of the older Doctors, there are simply better and perfectly appropriate alternatives available, at least if you're willing to buy a used book.… (mere)