Easily the best of the alternate universe cycle so far, Kate orman makes her doctor who novel debut and comes in with a BANG, if this is supposedly her worst book I look forward to see how her future books are like, this book is a bit rough around the edges with the flow of the prose sometimes being a bit jump starty and perspectives changing to quick with no indicator as to when it occurred (this could also be a PDF error but I don’t think so) and if this is fixed I cannot wait to see ormans more character oriented stories (The room with no doors….) as the character stuff is amazing here, we get a really nice look and introspective into the status-quo of each of the tardis team and their relationships with each other, the trust between the doctor and ace is deteriorating rapidly and Benny is stuck in the middle of that unsure if she should leave, but can she leave the doctor and ace on their own? Ace feels connected to the doctor, like they’re one in the same but their actions and personalities differ so much to the point it causes strife between them, Benny puts it well when she says “'I guess you can't stuff three personalities this strong into a phone booth and not have some conflict.” The dynamic between the three of them is great and while I like the fact that these issues have been addressed in a clearer way than any other book with this trio so far has, I would 1) like to see more of Benny as much as she’s a player in this one I still feel that she’s sidelined compared to ace, and 2) is like to see a conclusion to this, we don’t need to solve the doctor and aces complex love for eachother yet but I’d like to see them come to some sort of getting along (similar to how they all were at the beggining of shadowmind) so the team doesn’t feel as toxic, or if not at least expand on it more like this novel… overall this is great, a great plot, setting and character work from orman. Can’t wait to read more!