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alysmw's review
3.0
The plot was a little slow but I really liked how the author added in little sentences building back story and emotion which couldn't have been in the actual episode! Lots of the characters were annoyingly stupid.
morrisonca's review against another edition
4.0
This book started kind of slow but then it was soooooo good. A classic Dr and the Master tale.
nwhyte's review against another edition
http://nhw.livejournal.com/1037395.html#cutid3[return][return]This disappointed me. We start with quite a tedious aside on why the Doctor and the Brigadier intervened to prevent the Master from being executed (after his arrest in The D
wealhtheow's review against another edition
2.0
The Doctor and Jo investigate strange disappearances in the sea that are eventually linked to the Master's plot to use Sea Devils to exterminate the human race.
The writing is clunky and juvenile. For example: "The Judges had decided to sentence the Master to life-long imprisonment. They did not realise that, in the case of a Time Lord, 'life-long' might mean a thousand years!" The science is terrible. The background characters are stereotypes. The plot is slapdash and poorly paced. But nostalgia is a powerful force, and I love the Third Doctor and Jo Grant, so this gets two whole stars from me!
The writing is clunky and juvenile. For example: "The Judges had decided to sentence the Master to life-long imprisonment. They did not realise that, in the case of a Time Lord, 'life-long' might mean a thousand years!" The science is terrible. The background characters are stereotypes. The plot is slapdash and poorly paced. But nostalgia is a powerful force, and I love the Third Doctor and Jo Grant, so this gets two whole stars from me!
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