Wetworld ~ Mark Michalowski
Book #22: 27 June, 2009 to 30 June, 2009
Wetworld ~ Mark Michalowski
This is another Doctor Who novelisation, this time with Martha as the companion. In this one, the TARDIS lands on a planet called Sunday which is quite amusing considering the Doctor's later comment to Donna that he never lands on Sundays because he finds them boring. Not so this Sunday! The TARDIS ends up in a swamp where there's a creature who is extremely interested in the human colonists on the planet, but that's not all.
I found this book to be quite a good read and certainly kept me engrossed. I managed to finish it in three days flat which is some indication of how much I enjoyed it, I think. The characterisations of the Doctor and Martha are pretty good; this book has more of the manic Doctor but it's not overdone and does seem to capture him quite well. The supporting characters are possibly a little less rounded but still well-written and I think the character of Ty came out better than the rest. I do think the show book was stolen by the otters though. When they're introduced, it's pointed out that they're similar to Earth otters but with some marked differences. It's only discovered much later on exactly how marked these differences are and I certainly wasn't expecting them to be quite so different. I'm not sure whether it was just a tad too far-fetched but if it was, it didn't bother me or put me off. They were still very cute and it was such a shame that the only image of them was in my head.
The plot is typical Doctor Who fare - mysterious creature attacking the population and the companion gets captured within two seconds of the opening - but I think it's got a little twist in the way it's handled here. The creature in the swamp is particularly gruesome and there are some moments that made me think I probably should not be reading it before going to bed! I did wonder how Martha felt about spending a good portion of the book running around in nothing more than a hospital gown and badly fitting pair of slippers but it didn't seem to bother her. I think this was a pretty decent book, and a nice revist to Classic Who albeit in a New Who way.
Wetworld ~ Mark Michalowski
This is another Doctor Who novelisation, this time with Martha as the companion. In this one, the TARDIS lands on a planet called Sunday which is quite amusing considering the Doctor's later comment to Donna that he never lands on Sundays because he finds them boring. Not so this Sunday! The TARDIS ends up in a swamp where there's a creature who is extremely interested in the human colonists on the planet, but that's not all.
I found this book to be quite a good read and certainly kept me engrossed. I managed to finish it in three days flat which is some indication of how much I enjoyed it, I think. The characterisations of the Doctor and Martha are pretty good; this book has more of the manic Doctor but it's not overdone and does seem to capture him quite well. The supporting characters are possibly a little less rounded but still well-written and I think the character of Ty came out better than the rest. I do think the show book was stolen by the otters though. When they're introduced, it's pointed out that they're similar to Earth otters but with some marked differences. It's only discovered much later on exactly how marked these differences are and I certainly wasn't expecting them to be quite so different. I'm not sure whether it was just a tad too far-fetched but if it was, it didn't bother me or put me off. They were still very cute and it was such a shame that the only image of them was in my head.
The plot is typical Doctor Who fare - mysterious creature attacking the population and the companion gets captured within two seconds of the opening - but I think it's got a little twist in the way it's handled here. The creature in the swamp is particularly gruesome and there are some moments that made me think I probably should not be reading it before going to bed! I did wonder how Martha felt about spending a good portion of the book running around in nothing more than a hospital gown and badly fitting pair of slippers but it didn't seem to bother her. I think this was a pretty decent book, and a nice revist to Classic Who albeit in a New Who way.