This was just alright. I got major Bernie Summerfield vibes from this story and it feels like it would have fit her a little better, perhaps reflecting these characters being a bit similar in ways I hadn't thought much of before.

I will say I'm glad this isn't the first Diary of River Song I've listened to, because I didn't enjoy Boundless Sea very much at all. The story is serviceable but silly, not much more substantial than the Brandan Fraser Mummy movies, though with significantly weaker character work all around. I didn't even hate all these characters but it feels like they just disappear from the story at certain points in a rather disappointing way. Even Alex Kingston's performance is pretty off, a thankfully rarity for her. Luckily the series seems a lot more reliable than this, even within this first set, and I look forward to checking out more of that.

That being said, every once in a while, this audio has little moments of fun to it. There are bits that felt delightfully spooky at times and I even like the ending of River getting a sort of message to send her off into the next adventure. That was fun. The twist where Bertie mentions River's vortex manipulator could have been executed so much better. It's really just unable to live up to either being a fun but silly mummy adventure, a character piece on River in her first solo adventure, or an intriguing historical piece, and kind of fails on all fronts because of it.