I had an alright time with this audio.  It's interesting as an adaptation of Bernice Summerfield's first appearance in the original novel, which I have not read as of writing this review.  Though we don't get a lot of it, the scenes where Benny and the Doctor were getting to know each other were a real treat.

However, I really didn't get a feel for Ace and her romance in this story.  I'm not against companions falling in love with characters, but when they are one-off randoms with a rushed, forced sense of chemistry, well, I don't love when the original series did that for characters like Leela, Susan, and Vicki.  Here it feels like it is done to force conflict between Ace and the Doctor, and I didn't quite buy that drama.  I understand the novel spends a little more time between Ace and her new romance Jan, or at least builds that up a little more, so I'd be interested to see if this character stuff works a bit better in the novel.  I kind of feel the same way about the Hoothi.  They are interesting, in theory, and I like how their plan so thoroughly involves and shapes the world of Heaven, but their story kind of felt underdeveloped.  It feels like before they really got to do anything Jan got to play the heroic sacrifice card and that was that.  Again, I do wonder if the novel handled this better.

So overall, no, I don't think I quite enjoyed this audio, but it did at least leave me curious about the original novel because, to its credit, this wasn't the worst listening experience, either.