I actually expected to like this book more than I did. It’s not bad, I just found it to be alright. I thought the book had some exceptional standout moments/lines, but I wasn’t a fan of the side characters, and you spend a lot of time with them in this book. I do think that the Daleks are properly, genuinely scary in this book. You can tell everyone, including the Doctor, is afraid of them, and with good reason. The author does a great job of making it feel like there are proper stakes. I did feel the Doctor’s characterization was a little all over the place, but it might have been intentional, since they were really going through it in this book. Not the go to NSA I’d recommend, but I think it’s worth a read.