4/5

Really just a competent and fun book with interesting characters and plot.

I felt this book to be a breath of fresh air where it is in the series. After the recent run of books, I had been left questioning: ‘why are these people travelling, what is actually in it for them to compensate for all the torture and abuse they get from the universe?’. While I am not averse to the EDAs having a fairly grim outlook on the universe, many books seem to forget to make some attempt to balance this with the idea that these characters are actually having fun in some way; Demontage doesn’t forget this and shows the TARDIS team travelling for fun, doing things because they can, because they want to and then encountering the violent side of the universe while in the context of an actually fun adventure for the team.

Definitely a one to read if the almost grimdark tone of some of the entries to the series starts to weigh.