Not a total disappointment but a rather lackluster remix of the Silurian two parter from series five. Doctor did not feel Doctor-y enough, and at one point acts so OOC it completely jarred me. A short, merely all right read. ( )

This was a great Doctor Who novella. This is the first Doctor Who story I have read and it was amazing. I could really picture Matt Smith as The Doctor and delivering those lines. Some of them were spot on. ( )

Fitting in with the current storyline of a companionless Doctor - he finds himself in the South Pole at the site of a refinery producing barrels of Fire Ice, a new revolutionary fuel source. Along for the ride, Liz claims to be a journalist, but her intentions seem to be to deceive everyone, including the Time Lord.

A simple tale of Silurians, greed, and environmental disaster - this is a straight forward and entertaining tale suited to young fans of Doctor Who. Nothing too original here - but with at least one nod for fans of classic Who that makes it a fine little read for adult fans. ( )

Quite enjoyable quick read though I already don't remember much about it. ( )

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The latest of the BBC's Quick Reads series, we have Eleven travelling on his own, and being called in to investigate mysterious happenings on an Antarctic base. The plot is thoroughly rooted in (which is to say largely copied from) the Old Who stories, particularly Warriors of the Deep, and Tucker seems to be consciously following Malcolm Hulke's style in his novelisations, but these are not intrinsically bad things and in fact it is done rather well, if fairly obviously aimed at a younger reading audience. Who would have thought that the Myrka could actually be resurrected without embarrassment?

Though I was deeply annoyed by one grammatical point - "its" was frequently though inconsistently spelt as "it's". I know that this usage is found in the Declaration of Independence, but its time is past; it's not what we do now. ( )