I don’t hate the Idea of Who tackling more mature Topics or trying to be more ‘adult’, when it works, it can give you a Story with a lot to like about. When it doesn’t.. it feels “trying to write an adult Story, but coming across as incredible tone-deaf and in some ways: stupid”. Sadly, the first VNA falls into the second Category. While I get some Decisions, I think a lot of them don’t add much good will to the Book. And that’s not even me getting started how CLEAR it is, that peels just dislike the TARDIS Team, it feels like at times he is writing them deliberately bad to NEVER get commissioned again for a VNA (which at the end of the Day he didn’t do another one of those). And this is super apparent with the use of the other Doctors here. Both, while not adding much to the Story, feel more appropriate than Seven ever did in this Book. And I am sorry to put it harshly but this is EXACTLY the type of Characterization, I think that misses the Doctor’s Character, even 7 who while yes can be a manipulative Person at times, would never act this Way let alone tell Ace to “deal with it”. Ace doesn’t come across that much better. Really, the Story itself is somewhat a mixed bag overall, there are a lot of Moments that just made me feel super uncomfortable. And again I think Doctor Who can tackle more mature Things, but this isn’t mature, this just borderlines on the Idea of being ‘edgy’ for the sake of it. Not helping the Fact that I can feel that the Writer just doesn’t like this TARDIS Team. What an awful Way to kickstart a Book Range.

The Cover Art is great I will say that, in general the VNAs and their Illustrations have their Charm!