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text 2015-08-19 19:08
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Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror - Mike Tucker

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review 2014-10-27 00:00
Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror
Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror - Mike Tucker Fantastic! A must read for all Whovians!


(I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads First-reads. )
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review 2014-10-09 17:02
Review - The Crawling Terror
Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror - Mike Tucker

Received from Edelweiss for an honest review.

 

Enjoyed the story line and the characterizations, especially that of the Doctor.  Will keep my eyes on this author.

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review 2014-10-09 14:10
Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror
Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror - Mike Tucker

(I got a copy courtesy of NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.)

Second Twelfth Doctor novel I read, and one I liked better than Silhouette. I'd say it's typical-enough Doctor Who, perhaps closer to some of the older adventures than to the most recent ones, in its theme and some of its elements? Namely giant insects and technology snagged from the Nazis—there's always something both eyeroll-worthy yet deliciously "old-fashioned" to find in such aspects, as far as I'm concerned. ("Old-fashioned", in that it always reminds of older stories I was reading back when I was a kid and WWII/the Cold War were still present in our minds. Nowadays, these themes feel like they're going further and further away from us.)

The Doctor and Clara investigate mysterious cobwebs and mutant insects in a small village known for its ring of ancient stones, as well as a few other curious things (either in the present or in the past). At first, they don't seem to be really linked together, but the author makes all those lines converge together in a timely fashion.

Not having seen many episodes with Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, I'm not completely sure if the character in this book is really close to the one portrayed in the series. He felt close enough, at least, and clearly different from Eleven, at any rate. Clara isn't always present, and depending on whether you like her character or not, this will be a good or a bad thing. I wasn't too convinced, but that may be because I thought she didn't have too much of an important role (and she should have—this is the novel where we learn

 

Jenny taught her to pick locks,

(spoiler show)

 

 

after all).

A few editing mistakes/typos, that I hope aren't in the final printed version. The writing style's alright: not too complicated, not too simple (with a couple of redundancies now and then, but nothing too bad from what I could see). Dialogues sound similar to the ones in the show. Overall, it indeed reads like a DW episode, and I liked that.

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review 2014-09-15 00:00
Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror
Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror - Mike Tucker This was a rather interesting take on Doctor Who for me. I read this coming off of Listen with Twelve and Clara, which I'm grateful to have done so close to the show because I was able to see the both of them in my mind better as I read, yet the Doctor took a whole new look for me when reading the book. This story was more interesting than the TV Series and had a lot more detail than ever before. The mystery was there as well as the fun at times.

I was not a huge fan of the large insects, and definitely not recommend this to those who have issues with insects. Yes, you should know what you should be getting into, but just a big FYI. Yes I received this through Goodreads giveaway.
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