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iamleeg's review against another edition
4.0
As other reviewers have noted, the novelisation has a very Douglas Adams feel to it. It's not just a depiction of the TV series, which in this case is a good thing.
gingerreader99's review against another edition
3.0
Unlike a friend of mine who has seen the corresponding episodes and can weigh in on how much better this is, I, can only go off the target novel. It's a fine story at a 3.5 star rating but the Doctor felt a little off for me in this adventure. Maybe I just don't know 6 that well, or perhaps that's part of 6 figuring out who he is but it just excite me as much as other stories. That said generally I enjoyed it.
clareoz's review against another edition
3.0
What a weird doctor who story! I’d never read a classic era doctor who book and only seen old episodes from the 4th doctor so this was a bit of a departure. The Doctor is really wildin in this one. Cant say I love him. I thought the actual plot was fine haha. The most interesting part we’re the backstories of various characters rather the actual plot
tempus's review against another edition
There was one funny part where a character was like "I hate my kids I wish I could kill them" but mostly i 's just unentertaining excessive info about side characters.
nwhyte's review
http://nhw.livejournal.com/1065517.html#cutid1[return][return]It's not a big secret that the TV original of this is by far my least favourite Classic Who story. I am none the less utterly amazed by how much worse the novelisation is. Saward attempts to channel Douglas Adams by giving us lots of extra humorous background detail, but it doesn't work for two reasons: less importantly, because he does significant violence to continuity (especially in the back-story for Azmael) without putting anything more interesting in its place; but more crucially because he simply isn't very funny. The strangulated sentence structure and poor proof-reading ("gawdy" for "gaudy", "balk" for "bulk" and at one point "Meersham" for "Meerschaum") further detract from the presentation of what is an unattractive story to begin with. By the law of averages, there must be some turkeys among the various spin-off novels but I would be astonished if any were quite as bad as this. Doctor Who and the Visitation is so much better than this that I had difficulty believing that they were by the same author.
leeg's review against another edition
4.0
As other reviewers have noted, the novelisation has a very Douglas Adams feel to it. It's not just a depiction of the TV series, which in this case is a good thing.
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