A review by theaurochs
Greensmith by Aliya Whiteley

4.0

A haunting and beautiful adventure through space and time with a handsome, oddly dressed and quirky human-looking alien; complete with ancient races and grudges, universe-altering stakes, self-reference and lots of running down corridors. Hang on is this a Doctor Who fanfic? Well it seems like it sort of is. Whitely uses the familiar structure of the human companion swept up into these grander adventures, but colours it with fantastic imagination, and uses it to comment on and deconstruct the ideas often present and persistent in Doctor Who. It's also a bittersweet and elegiac story on the beauty and fragility of nature; and a story about forging who you are. Lovingly written and thoughtfully considered, a great book.