Reviews

Doctor Who: Dreamstone Moon by Paul Leonard

aderyn's review

2.75

 It started off okay, but at halfway point became a real slog to get through. 

nwhyte's review against another edition

2.0

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1525146.html

The next Eighth Doctor Adventure in sequence after Longest Day (and the parenthesis of Legacy of the Daleks). A fairly standard romp - exploitation of alien planet (turns out the dreamstones of the title are similar to the rocks in Sherri S Tepper's 1987 novel After Long Silence / The Enigma Score), with the wrinkle that the Doctor and Sam are apart for almost the entire book and remain parted at the end. There is one memorable tentacular alien character, Aloisse. But nothing very outstanding about this one. (

julis's review

slow-paced

3.0

This one wasn’t bad! I think keeping Sam and Eight separate is causing more problems than it solves, but Leonard can…write…weird concept that, and if the plot was grindingly predictable after several other books on the environmentalism theme, at least there were cool aliens.

nukirisame's review

reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

coffee_deer's review

4.0

Couldn't put it down, really - didn't have an opportunity to finish it in one sit, but still, came pretty close to me. And I honestly don't know why I like this book so much... Why it has gone way better for me than, like, three or four previous books in the series. The tension, I guess? And the plot. And the writing. And the rooting for the Doctor and Sam who just keep trying to get together again and this is so frustrating and heartbreaking, urgh!

Thank you, Paul Leonard. I planned to dive back into the EDA for one book only, but, I guess, I just have to pick the next one up right now.