March Books 5) War of the Daleks, by John Peel

[nwhyte]

I very much enjoyed Peel's novelisations of black-and-white era Dalek stories, where he managed to inject a bit more sense and continuity than was to be found in the originals; here he writes a fun Eighth Doctor story which is very much in the tradition of the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors' televised encounters with the spawn of Skaro, including

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[bookzombie]

I've still not read the two Peel 8th Doctor/Dalek stories (I picked them up out of sequence - I'll get back to them!)

My problem with the 8th Doctor/Sam books is that I always found Sam a rather difficult character to like; in particular she seems to be portrayed as the stereotyped bullying environmentalist. Actually I think they BBC range generally have a problem with the portrayal of the female companions but that's a discussion for when you've read them all!