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Review of The Deviant Strain by RandomJoke

14 May 2025

Echoing what others have said. It was very meh.
I do think it’s a bit more consistent than Richard’s previous NSA Book, but not by much. I think Richards nails the Voices for our Tardis Trio quite well, all of them feel very much stripped out of the TV Show, which is at least an Improvement over some very early ones. The Pace of this book is very slow and at times it can be a bit tough to get through it. It does pick up after a while, but I feel like it picks up Pace way too late, which is a shame. A lot of it, I would describe as ‘perfectly fine’, which at times makes it go on the Verge of being boring. Some great Character Moments help it a lot to not fall down the Pit fully. I still think it’s a somewhat decent, if unremarkable Read.

I really hope the NSA pick up and become a bit more ‘out-there’, besides one book, I don’t really think much of them. If anything, a lot of them feel a bit ‘too safe’ and ‘by the numbers’.


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