I bought Shining Darkness by Mark Michalowski over a year ago since I thought his previous offering for the new series Dr Who books was easily the best of the bunch. It has been languishing in the `to read' pile ever since.

( Review under the cut )

I'm fairly sure I haven't attended a Dr Who convention in about 20 years, but when a convention was announced dedicated to the Doctor Who novels, which was going to take place in B's favourite Manchester pub, I didn't feel I had much excuse not to go.

( Novelcon, including a half-remembered Primeval anecdote in the sixth paragraph )

Just as I'd pretty much decided to cut my losses and give up the new series books along comes Wetworld by Mark Michalowski challenging me to revise my assumptions. It's about as old school (as in Virgin-Books-a-like) as its possible to be within the confines of the new series, throwing around mentions of adjudicators and world-building the details ( Read more... )