Una McCormack has a way of writing that makes you picture what your reading like it’s an episode. She portrayed the Doctor brilliantly and Amy and Rory the same.

I love how she has pulled references from the series and put them into the story. For example when Rory kept guard of the pandorica for thousands of years. I love it when authors do this. I liked how the author put Amy and the Doctor in one time period and Rory in another. Love it when the Doctor goes into earths history. ( )

A Doctor Who novel, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy, Rory, and some creepy woods that everyone in the town next to them instinctively avoids, except for the people who periodically enter and disappear.

I don't know that I'd call it an outstanding Who novel, but it's certainly a decent one, of the sort one could fairly easily imagine working as an episode of the show. The character voices are good, especially the Doctor's, although I do wish we'd seen a bit more of him, as he's essentially sidelined for much of the story. And the woods, and the weird things that happens to time inside them, are interesting, as is the explanation we eventually get for why they're so weird. I was a bit less satisfied with the ending, though, which features a sort of time-travel fix-it that the show usually avoids (and probably for fairly good reason). ( )

There is no way through Swallow Woods. As the name might suggest, it seems to swallow people up. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory intend to investigate by tracking one of the people who goes missing in the woods — and then Rory goes missing too. Will they be able to save him and figure out what’s up with the woods?

I enjoyed this Doctor Who book very much. Amy and Rory are my favourite of Eleven’s companions, and there are some very good Eleven lines in here (e.g., referring to Rory as “Trooper Rory, the non-porous rock”). I also liked that Rory had a little bit of his own storyline. This was a very fast read and worth reading if you like the Eleventh Doctor. ( )

This was a fun Dr. Who adventure, a bit slow at first, but a cool idea once the story developed a bit. Rory gets a decent role in solving this one, and the Doctor gets a happy ending, where just about no one dies. ( )

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After finishing this book, I started to wonder whether there are any BAD Doctor Who books at all. Though I wasn’t really a fan of Hunter’s Moon, I did enjoy it, but other than that I really loved all the DW books that I’ve read until now. Sure, I haven’t read ALL the DW books in the world yet, there are about 51 New Series Adventures books, of which I have only read seven. And then there are the Classic Series still, which have about 156 books. I’ll just go and read as much DW books as I can, so I can find out if there really are bad Doctor Who books.

But now onto this one. I haven’t made a lot of notes for this book, because I was really into it (I finished it within twenty-four hours). I really, really loved it, and I would love to have seen this one as an episode. I liked the way it was written, and like I’ve probably said earlier, I don’t mind the changing POV’s at all with the Doctor Who books; because in this way you find out more of the story through other people’s eyes.

This story was mostly written from both Amy and Rory’s POV’s, seeing as the Doctor spend most of his time in a cell at the Police station. At first I suspected the Weeping Angels to be the reason why people disappeared, and I actually hoped they’d be (even though they weren’t on the cover of the book), but alas, it turned out to be a different alien (which sounded awesome to me as well).

There is one part in the book, that I just really loved, and I am just going to quote it. It does have a tiny spoiler in it, but it’s not a very big part of the story.

“And Rory knew he would – for Amy. His amazing, wonderful, alarming, smashing Amy, the memory of whom flooded back into his head now. Rory nearly cried to think he could ever have forgotten him.”

Rory was thinking about how he spend two-thousand years waiting and protecting the Pandorica (in the episode ‘The Big Bang’), because Amy was inside that box. And this quite is just wonderful, because Amy and Rory are my favourite fictional couple, and this sentence just reminds me why I love them so much, because they love each other so much they couldn’t bear to live without each other.

I loved how in the end everyone got their happy end, and yeah I just really loved it, I haven’t got much more to say about it. ( )