The Thirteenth Doctor #21

'The Maze of Doom' (2020) from BBC Children's Books.

Top quality stuff this. These two David Solomons books have captured Thirteen and the Fam so exquisitely. I feel like I know more about them from these than all of the televised run really. Graham has a lot of great focus in this one here. Love all of his bus-related antics, and his care and protection for Ryan. Yaz and The Doctor have lovely chemistry once again as well.

Big fan of the Nimon. Having not seen the Tom Baker story, this is a great introduction to them. It's really cool to see a classic villain being brought back into the new series via the EU rather than the main show. The Grecian lore and even the Polichroniadis villains were very kinetically written.

Only thing I'll say is the little "left not right" message felt a bit wasted. I feel like we should have seen The Doctor make that phone call immediately after they were separated, but then the double-meaning would later reveal itself. Just a weird bit of bootstrapping there that didn't really work for me.