story?

Yikes.

I love a good story - and I love a good, twisty, Dr Who story! But here...?

The plot was confusing, unsatisfying, and weird. For the entire first half Donna just wandered alone, which I don't think made her very happy and certainly left me frustrated with the writer who made such a dynamic Leading Lady flounder for that time.

The only reason to listen is the narrator's fabulous rendition of the main villain's voice: I kept listening for that reason, checking out from the plot to just chuckle at that bit.

To be fair now! Maybe if I listen a few more times I would understand it, but I have little interest in trying.

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Disjointed mess

This is the first Who novel I've disliked. It moved at such a rapid pace half the time I didn't know what was going on. It felt like the book was incomplete and all the moments meant to catch the reader up had been eliminated. Most of the characters were narrated with very annoying voices and character wise Donna was given nothing to do except make clever little quips and be in distress and need rescuing.

I initially thought going in that the novel would be a spin on "The Most Dangerous Game" and at first it feels as though that's the direction its heading in, but very quickly the plot is redirected into more a traditional which Doctor is the real one and who is fooling who, which has been done before in the show.

Occasionaly there was a moment that made me smirk were the dialogue combined with the narration just nailed David Tennant's Doctor, but overall this is forgettable. It feels rushed and incomplete.