Stories Short Story The Target Storybook Gatecrashers 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 4 Statistics Quotes 1 Overview Released Thursday, October 24, 2019 Written by Joy Wilkinson Publisher BBC Books Pages 23 Time Travel Future Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Authority Figure, Lottery Inventory (Potential Spoilers!) Sonic Screwdriver Synopsis The Thirteenth Doctor and her fam arrive in a pizza parlour with no doors or windows, where they discover a dead body. They discover mysterious codes they can use to teleport to different buildings on the planet. But why can the planet's inhabitants not go outside? As the fam split up, they realise they could be in danger of never seeing each other again... Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Thirteenth Doctor Graham O'Brien Ryan Sinclair Yasmin Khan Show All Characters (4) How to read Gatecrashers: Books The Target Storybook Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 4 reviews 11 February 2025 · 49 words Review by hallieday Spoilers This review contains spoilers! The Thirteenth Doctor #14 'Gatecrashers' (2019) from The Target Storybook. Feels like a story that fits in well thematically with Series 11 as well as with other short stories of Thirteen's already. Disconcerting that she really feels like she's killing people left and right though. So tonally jarring for her happy-go-lucky character. hallieday View profile Like Liked 0 5 February 2025 · 32 words Review by RandomJoke 1 Love it! JOY WILKINSON MY BELOVED DOES IT AGAIN! She is so brilliant writing for 13. A really fun Story, I really like the Worldbuilding and it’s just a really fun Story! RandomJoke View profile Like Liked 1 27 January 2025 · 66 words Review by glass_shard Spoilers This review contains spoilers! story was pretty cute, was gonna give it 7, then i realized it was maybe a bit too close to a simplified version of the long game, but still enjoyable and the prose had some fun lines so i thought maybe i'll score it 6, then the ending came around and i settled on 5. what is it with 13 and killing people, going "oof that sucks", and moving on? glass_shard View profile Like Liked 0 18 November 2024 · 144 words Review by DontBlink Spoilers 2 This review contains spoilers! THE TARGET STORYBOOK: STORY 1 The Target Storybook kicks off in style with Gatecrashers, a Thirteenth Doctor tale by Joy Wilkinson, of The Witchfinders fame. This short story is different in many ways to Wilkinson’s television episode, but it is just as good. Gatecrashers is a very fun adventure with a very interesting concept. The description in the story makes you feel immersed, and when I finished it, it felt like I had read a whole novel. There is a large amount of detail, which works in the story’s favour. However, the part of the story that interested me the most, the mystery of Iz’s death, is resolved poorly and underwhelmingly. Thankfully, that didn’t let Gatecrashers down. A good story has been chosen to kick off the collection. Hopefully, the other stories will continue with this quality, perhaps even be better! DontBlink View profile Like Liked 2 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating33 members 3.52 / 5 Member Statistics Read 64 Favourited 1 Reviewed 4 Saved 0 Skipped 0 Owned 3 Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite Tags: Speech DOCTOR: You want people with imaginations? You have to set them free. Let them see things, go places, meet each other and understand how it all works so they can make it better than you managed to. That might mean risking some chaos, danger. But it's worth the risk. — Thirteenth Doctor, Gatecrashers
