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A review by hidekisohma
Doctor Who: Dreamstone Moon by Paul Leonard
3.0
Okay! Onto book #11 of the EDA. How was this one? Well, it was better than Longest Day! Yeah, Low bar i know.
So this book basically has Sam and the Doctor still separated. Same adventure, different paths. Normally, i wouldn't have a problem with this, but for the longest time, the doctor isn't even in the story. For the first 2/3 of the book, the doctor's in MAYBE 40 pages out of 160. This book is predominantly a Sam story. While i think Sam's fine, i really read these for the doctor, so when he doesn't show up for long swatches of time, i get a little bored.
I really liked some of the aliens in this story though. i like the idea of a tentacly octopus thing as one of the story's main characters well as one of the incidental characters' cat-girl girlfriend. It's nice to see some doctor who aliens in classic who other than "humanoid with weird eyebrows" that aren't villains and this book took the time to explain and show some non-humanoid aliens and i thought that was pretty neat.
In fact, i actually quite liked the first third of the book where the world was being explained and the characters were being introduced. However, when stuff went to hell (as it always does in who books) that's when the story took a dive for me and i really didn't care as much anymore. I didn't exactly zone out, but i didn't really CARE about the "exciting" parts of the story. I don't know, it just wasn't for me.
It seems that i just end up not liking Doctor who stories that involved space suits. Not BECAUSE of them, it just seems to end up being that way.
On a side note, One of the main side characters doesn't make it and i wasn't too fond of that. I feel like the author could have done better with that.
The previous book I read by Paul Leonard was "Genocide" and i will say this book is MILES better than that one. Once again, that's not saying a whole lot, but i felt it needed to be said.
The doctor was fine in this one, while Sam was a bit whiny as is seemingly per usual at this point. This story is definitely just fine. Not great, not bad, just fine. it told a story, it kind of had a resolution, and we learned the lesson of "mining bad. people need respect nature." You know, that lesson we've already known from 100 other stories.
So yeah, this book, Even 3 out of 5. no halves, just...even 3 out of 5.
So this book basically has Sam and the Doctor still separated. Same adventure, different paths. Normally, i wouldn't have a problem with this, but for the longest time, the doctor isn't even in the story. For the first 2/3 of the book, the doctor's in MAYBE 40 pages out of 160. This book is predominantly a Sam story. While i think Sam's fine, i really read these for the doctor, so when he doesn't show up for long swatches of time, i get a little bored.
I really liked some of the aliens in this story though. i like the idea of a tentacly octopus thing as one of the story's main characters well as one of the incidental characters' cat-girl girlfriend. It's nice to see some doctor who aliens in classic who other than "humanoid with weird eyebrows" that aren't villains and this book took the time to explain and show some non-humanoid aliens and i thought that was pretty neat.
In fact, i actually quite liked the first third of the book where the world was being explained and the characters were being introduced. However, when stuff went to hell (as it always does in who books) that's when the story took a dive for me and i really didn't care as much anymore. I didn't exactly zone out, but i didn't really CARE about the "exciting" parts of the story. I don't know, it just wasn't for me.
It seems that i just end up not liking Doctor who stories that involved space suits. Not BECAUSE of them, it just seems to end up being that way.
On a side note, One of the main side characters doesn't make it and i wasn't too fond of that. I feel like the author could have done better with that.
The previous book I read by Paul Leonard was "Genocide" and i will say this book is MILES better than that one. Once again, that's not saying a whole lot, but i felt it needed to be said.
The doctor was fine in this one, while Sam was a bit whiny as is seemingly per usual at this point. This story is definitely just fine. Not great, not bad, just fine. it told a story, it kind of had a resolution, and we learned the lesson of "mining bad. people need respect nature." You know, that lesson we've already known from 100 other stories.
So yeah, this book, Even 3 out of 5. no halves, just...even 3 out of 5.