April 14

DW: Sting of the Zygons

Hey Guys,

welcome the 13th adventure of the New Adventure Book Series ‘Sting of the Zygons’ with the tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. The enemies in this book is obviously the Zygons. I got as part of the Monster Collection. The TARDIS lands on the 16th September 1909. They stay at least for three days. For Martha it is some point after Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks.

Zygons

I never was a big fan of these particular monsters. This book doesn’t change it. The thought that they can take any form might be a little unsettling. They are planner and strategic what makes them more dangerous than a lot of other enemies of the Doctor. In ‘Sting of the Zygons’ how ever we see a little different side of the Zygons than before. We learn how desperation looks on them.

Zygons and the hunters

The monster of the Zygons the Skarasen goes lose and kill a lot of humans and a second one is found dead. The Doctor and Martha arrive shortly after these events. They found also a dead Zygon. Maybe an alien hunter is out their hunting the Zygons down. But what ever it is the Doctor has to find out.

The little Ian

Like always the Doctor and Martha make a lot of friends really fast and get thrown out be as much people too. I loved the most Martha’s little friend Ian. Martha has to fight in this time to be taken seriously and all man want to put her on the side lines. But we all know Martha and she never just sits on the sideline. Ian is a young boy who don’t care for this world views. He likes Martha and the get on really well and fast.
Ian is putting himself in danger all the time. I am not even sure that he gets the danger he is in most of the time. But he trusts Martha is always there to help her out. It is really sweet how this two always save each other.

Reading or not

The book is not bad but it is not good either. I don’t like the story very much and the monster are not my thing. The characters except for Ian are not so sympatric. There are a few fun scenes but it is just my book.

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January 16

DW: The Resurrection Casket

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 9th book of the New Adventure Serie The Resurrection Casket. I am happy and sad that there are only three books of Rose and the 10th Doctor left. I love these two together. But i also love to have Martha back. She is one of my favorite companions of the Doctor. But back to the theme at hand. This book is like already said with Rose and the 10th Doctor. The guys of AHistory place it around the year 3906 in the time of the Galatic Federation and would take place between the events of The Infinite Quest (an animated Doctor Who story) and The Pirate Loop (NSA#20). In this story are no idication when in the time line of the Doctor this take place. So i thing it plays after the book The Feast of the Drowned and obviously before the events of the TV-Episodes Army of Ghosts (Final of season two).

The big time of the pirates

Isn’t it one of the biggest dreams to be a space pirate. What kid didn’t wanted to be a pirate (i didn’t)? But many people in stories dream about it. About the freedom and the adventure that it will bring. In this story we will met such a boy. A boy who dreams of big adventures and treasures. But we all know that a life of pirate is more than adventures and treasure. A life of a pirate is about blood, death and fights. Every freedom comes with a price. Of course there is a legend of a big pirate and his treasure that got lost in the Zeg. The zeg is a zone in space where all that technic schnick schnack doesn’t work. Steam is the only mechanic that works there. We all know that behind story there is always a truth. So it seems that the legend of the dark shadow is true. If someone put the dark shadow on you, he will kill you.
In all that legend and stories the Doctor and Rose stranded. Because the zeg is also shuting down the TARDIS.

Reading or not

The story has is ups and downs. The first part is kinda boring. I mean Jimm the boy is sweet but he is so blind for the dark sides of the world that it is hard to don’t want to struggle him. At first i thought that the story is very obvious but in the end the twist make it worth it. It is just not like it seems. Even when i am pretty sure most of you can work it out before the Doctor explains it. But the second part of the book is fun. The travel group brings me joy and tears. Just a hint the story is about something i really love. The question what makes us evil and what makes us good. Are we born the way we turn out or can we change. So yes definitly go and read that book. I love it.

The next book on my list is ‘The Shadow of Avalon‘ because the next books of the New Adventure Serie are not bought yet. But yeah i am sure that it doesn’t take long to get them.

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December 16

DW: The Feast of the Drowned

Hey Guys,

i actually get to read the 8th adventure of the New adventure serie – The Feast of the Drowned – with the tenth Doctor and Rose. It place in the present (2007) when Rose is visiting her mum again. For Mickey and Jacky this is taking place after The Stone Rose (NAS#7) which also after the christmas special- The Christmas Invasion and place before School reunion.

There is always another explaination

Is there something like ghost? The brother of on old friend of Rose died. He was working on a ship that sunk and he and all the other crew members drowned with it. After three month the parts of the ship got transfered to London and this is when the ghosts start apearing. But even when they found the ship, they didn’t found anything of the crew. Of course the Doctor and Rose with the help of Mickey start investigating.

The little things

What i really like about this story are the little things. Like the mentioned the time Rose was away. Her friends that believed the first and how everyone gave Mickey the fault for her absence. I think that Rose never really thought about what her friends or Mickey had been through. She just always forget about this time, because it is just the best thing in her life. She lost kinda contact to her life when she starts traveling with the Doctor.

Reading or nor

The story is solid but not superb. I read better and way worth. What makes the story so good is Rose life. This story shows us what Rose did to the people around her and how she forget about it. We see a Rose that we would say should grow up but on the other hand we see a grown up Rose. A Rose that would sacrifice herself to save people. A Rose that will never give up. We see what the travels did to the persons near to her but we also see what the travels did to her and that is why the story is a yes to reading this book.

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September 12

DW: The Stone Rose

Hey Guys,
now that i sadly had read every book of the ‘New Serie Adventure‘ with the ninth Doctor, i started the Stone Rose the first book of the serie with the tenth Doctor. The Story takes place in the 120’s the ancient Rome. Rose and the Doctor are travling there because Mickey found in 2007 a statue looking like Rose. This first part the big family trip to the national museum is really funny. But watch holds the rest of the book for us.

Who is it?

I don’t know how it was when the book was publiced. But i think it was like now with the twelfth Doctor. That the author had to writte about the new Doctor without really nowing him. The get a little information and had to work with it. I hope that it is that way. Because i don’t find the tenth Doctor in that book. There are little things like the Doctor trying to adjust to the time he visit. I don’t think i can recall any Doctor that would’ve done that. The Tenth Doctor visit greek in his coat and chucks… he never change, the tenth Doctor is an extremly emotinal Doctor. Here i doesn’t see this in him. The tenth Doctor is the Doctor that is part of the family. He is staying for dinner with Rose and her Mam. He is building a conaction to Mickey. He is not the one anymore that goes out searching the adventure on his own.

Fortuna

We have Rose as goddess Fortuna, a missing person, a slave that seems to see the future or not, a artist that makes skupltures with out even working on it. We all know how is most suspecious to be the suspect in this missing case. In the end we have alot of stuff going on and the whole story becomes a big paradox. Too much for my liking but the book did something i really like. The Doctor got a lot of time to have an adventure on his on and Rose have hers too. That is not oven the case. Also i apprechiat the way Rose is portrayed from the Doctor. She is a lot like the describe Fortuna. This is Rose. She is not the perfect girl. She can be for a few people like goddess or just an ordinary girl, she can be nice and cruel. She left Mickey… i really like Rose, but to often people forget that she was cruel to Mickey. That she broke his heart and than always gave him hope for more. We should remember her good sides and her bad sides, and she had like every human being alot of flaws.

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August 29

DW: The Clockwise Man

Hey Guys,
so here we go with the first adventures from the New Serie Adventures The Clockwise man. The ninth Doctor is visiting with Rose London in October 1924 to see the British Empire Exhibition. The Story takes place after the story The Unquiet Dead. Rose reverse alot to it in the Story.

Tick, Tock, goes the clock…

Tick, tock, this is also how the story goes it is stedy it have no ups and downs, it just goes tick, tock, … Also you may have sensed it, it goes about the clock-robots (what was their name?). We see them in episodes like ‘The Girl in the fireplace’ or ‘Deep Breath’ but they accured also in earlier stories like ‘The Mind Robber’. I never was a big fan of them but they work mostly in the stories very well.
They story has his turns but it turns so slow that you can see them coming in the long way. To be honest the ‘biggest’ twist i didn’t see but i wasn’t surprised because if you look clearly it was scream in your face. Most of the time you are just to focused on the kid.

The little Prince

The Story about the kid – Freddie – isn’t important at all. I love Freddie he is sweet and you can so feel with him. He is the best in this story and sometime i was very afraid that he will not survive. I most saw to my shame that i like Rose totally don’t make the circle but the haemophilia. This was really sloopy reading on me side. For Freddie it was worth reading the book.

So this book is some of the really weak books, but it has Freddie in it and he is a really good character.

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July 6

DW: The Blood Cell

Hey Guys,
i read the first book of Doctor Who with the twelfth Doctor – the blood cell. It is part of the New serie Adventure and take place somewhere when Clara and Danny are already dating. I would say it has to be after he was the janitor. Because she is talking about bringing the Doctor with her to school. I read the book in one day, i think that says alot about the book.

My Adventures with the Doctor

This book is complete written in the first person. It is little special, because the athor choose a person we don’t know. Also it is not real a sypampty carrier. He is the Governor of a prison, where the Doctor is send in. So the Governor as the pleasure of dealing with the Doctor. Also he has a lot of problems with his prison. All the systems are malefunction.

Twelfth Doctor

This book as a difficult task. Because they had to write the Doctor before they have seen him. So most of the time it could be the twelfth Doctor, but on other time you think that this isn’t what the twelfth Doctor would do. For example making baloon animals for the kids…but i will look over this because, all this was written before the athor has seen how Peter Capaldi played him. Most of the time it doesn’t show because of the first person way of telling the story.

Clara

I think everyone knows Clara i don’t have to tell you who she is. Here in this book she is our typical Clara. But it is a little sad that she got really little action. Just in the end she can run away with the Doctor and got captured. This is the only part that i don’t like about the book.

The story is not a great, special story. But it is good enough to work. It works just fine, it is a little different and interessting enough to keep me ready the whole night. So yeah read it.

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June 19

DW: Beautiful Chaos

Sooo~
this book is also from the ‘New Series Adventure‘ and featured not the ninth doctor. This book is featuring the tenth Doctor (which is with two and one some of my favorite Doctors) and Donna Noble. I love them both and i love their dynamic. I am a big fan of the families of the companions. I loved Jackie Tyler so much and Donnas family is a little different. Yes i like Wilf but her mother is not really sympatic. But thats why i really like Donnas family and the stories with them. Their characters have a real depth and the book don’t disappoint as in that point. The characters are really well written. One of the interesting thing are the inside of the character of Donnas mother. This side we didn’t see very often in the serie. So from the characters it is really worth to read it.

The story plays with the knowledge of the character ark of Donna. So how don’t know who the story of Donna ends, should read the book and don’t read more of this entry.

The Prolog just starts with what we know. Donna didn’t know anything and Wilf is looking in the stars for a sign of the Doctor. Than the main story starts. But just the start creates a very emotional story and the end just hangs above our heads the whole time. So lets talk about the main story. To be honest it is a good story but not the best one. For me there are to many loose ends and just the story wouldn’t be really satisfying. Maybe it is also because it reminds me a little of the Sontoran Story – Poison Sky. But with the characters and all the emotions and so one i can overlook every loose end.

I really enjoyed reading it. One of the best Doctor Who book i read.

Good Night

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June 9

DW: The Stealers of Dreams

Hi Guys,
for me is nearlly midnight. So not look to close. After the disappointing book, i startet to read the next book of ‘New Series Adventure‘ with mixed feelings. I didn’t want to have to high expectations, but lets talk about the important things.
This book is featuring the ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Captain Jack Harkness. To take the main opinion first, i liked it.

For the most time all three are on their own. Jack is totally like we know and love him. He don’t need the Doctor to get shit done. So doesn’t Rose. Of course at the end of the day the Doctor saves everyone. But i think the book shown really good the strength and weaks of the the characters. Also it is one of the few books with really good secondary characters. They are not all sympatic but interesting.

The Story is not the best, but it’s kinda interessting. What fiction can do to us? Or what the absend of fiction do to us? That are the questions that came up in the book. Dreams are such a big and interesting theme and i like what they do with it. What is realty and what is a dream? I like how they play with it.  The end is a little bit hasted and anti-climatic. But on the other hand i can’t really imagine an other good end.

So yeah definitly not the best book but totally not the worst. I think it is a nice entertaiment.

Good night.

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June 4

DW: Only Human

Hi Guys ,

we have the middle of the week, yeah. Not long and it is weekend a long weekend in germany because it is Pfingsten.

But now the the next book of the ‘New Series Adventure‘ it featured the ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack Harkness. I love Jack so i was really happy to see that he is part of the crew in this book – I am also a big fan of Torchwood. But he doesn’t have a real role in this book. They let Jack stay behind, have the adventure with out him and than take him back. Also the few scenes with him are not the Jack i love. He is too judgmental about looks. For me that is totally out of character.

So the Doctor and Rose are having their adventure. There is so much you could have done with this stuff. But it is just the ordnary story and i don’t like how modern the talking in 26185 BC. They are so much things in this story that good give a great story, but the take the must rediculess part of it and give it so much time.

What else can i say… i don’t like the book very much.

 

See ya

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June 1

DW: Winner takes all

Hi Guys,

here cames again a book  of the ‘New Serie Adventure‘ i read a while ago. It featured the ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith.

I like Mickey so i have really happy to have a little action  with him in the book. The characters are well written. So the best about the book is the interaction of the ninth Doctor with the others.

The plot idea is not a new one and i have read a lot of books with this plot idea, some was of them were better and some worse x But I think the plot works well. Just a few things could have gone little bit deeper. The whole story is just scratching the surface of the potential of the story.

Just one think really annoys me. At some point in the story are parts written from the perspectiv of a young boy and he just let is imagination run wild and thinks of himself as the choosen one. I like the conflict they want to show with that but not the kind it is written…it just got on my nervs.

 

Have a nice Sunday 🙂

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