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gingerreader99's review
4.0
First book of 2021 finished, and like 2020 it is also a Who Book. This is the start of three Vampire centered tales I am working through and if the other two are even half as good as this I know it will be enjoyable. I thoroughly enjoyed this short yet sweet engagement of the fourth doctor and Romana who I have grown to love from the Douglas Adams books.
imakandiway's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
nwhyte's review
http://nhw.livejournal.com/654303.html[return][return]This is Dicks' novelisation of his own script for the 1980 Fourth Doctor story featuring Romana, K9, Adric (who stowed away on the Tardis at the end of the previous story) and vampires. Suffers from the usual problems of the novelisations - too much reliance on dialogue in particular, and Dicks' rather flat prose. Still I remembered a couple of vivid moments from the series - the high-tech destruction of the Great Vampire by the Doctor, and also the rather clumsily written moment where Adric attempts to assure Romana that he's on her side - weakened the dramatic impact drastically as I remember, though perhaps that was the fault of Matthew Waterhouse's acting. I had forgotten that the Doctor found the key piece of information on magnetic data disks left by Rassilon in every Tardis just in case. Good nostalgia
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