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Review of Emancipation of the Daleks by OctaviaTheNerd

8 March 2025

This review contains spoilers!

What's this? Via actually doing a review! I know right! Now, don't get used to it folks this is just a spur of the moment thing because I remembered I haven't actually reviewed this release yet.

 

Can I just kick off by saying how much I enjoyed this release. I never expected to be made to feel sympathy towards the Daleks but this release makes you feel it. I thought Alternate Bill's (henceforth to be referred to as Billternate) story was expertly done and really heartbreaking. Emancipation also includes what I think might be my favourite representation of an alternate universe Earth or at least a very close second behind Turn Left.

 

Secondly of all, Dan Starkey does a very good Capaldi impression which helped me get engrossed in the overall story and Jonathan Morris' writing of 12 lends itself very well to the audio novel format. Billternate is also a really good and fleshed out character, with (as already stated) a heartbreaking backstory without 12 to be there for her.

 

Overall, this is probably my favourite audio novel they've released and is rapidly becoming my fave 12 story in general


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