Stories Book BBC Books New Series Adventures Molten Heart 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 2 Statistics Quotes Overview Released Thursday, November 8, 2018 Written by Una McCormack Pages 256 Time Travel Unclear Location (Potential Spoilers!) Adamantine Synopsis Deep below the surface of the planet Adamantine lies a crystalline wonder world of lava seas and volcanic islands, home to living rock-people. But when the Doctor and her friends arrive on Adamantine they find it under threat. The seas are shrinking, the magma is cooling, and mysterious, fatal seething pools are spreading fast. Something has come to Adamantine – but what does it want? Fearing an invasion is underway, the Doctor must lead an expedition to the surface of the world to save its molten heart... 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 Yasmin Khan Ryan Sinclair Show All Characters (4) How to read Molten Heart: Books Molten Heart 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 2 reviews 22 April 2025 · 335 words Review by jiffleball Spoilers This review contains spoilers! It's interesting to see McCormack try out a concept she will later nail in Caged (with the 15th Doctor). It's clear that she likes to think up a good alien species with a unique world and outlook. But it just works so much better in her later book. Contrasting the two demonstrates why. In Caged, just as in Molten Heart, we start with the main character. In both cases, an adventurous young girl somewhat at odds with her small community by dint of her adventurousness. But in Molten Heart, we stay with this character for just one short prologue chapter before the Fam arrives. In Caged, it's a good chunk of the book. We get a real feel for our heroine. We are rooting for her and care about her before the Doctor and their companion(s) arrive. There is no such feeling in Molten Heart. The emotional beats hit harder in Caged. It gives us the confusion of an alien abduction and the doubts of the abductor and we feel both. Molten Heart gives us only what we can see coming a mile away. This makes Molten Heart fascinating, because in it we can see the rough draft of some ideas that are better realized in McCormack's later, excellent book. I'm an Una stan and it's cool to see her improve from this book, which I didn't care for, to the other book, which is among my top DW novels. Separately, this book once again underlines a problem with the Fam. The TARDIS has too many people and they never get interesting development. This book should have sidelined two — and I mean really sidelined; have them left at home on the TARDIS playing a game that we cut back to for ten pages total — and focus on just 13 and Ryan or just 13 and Yaz. I would love a larger TARDIS team that played with this and if it won't happen in the show, maybe it ought to happen in these spinoff novels. jiffleball View profile Like Liked 0 15 June 2024 · 82 words Review by PexLives 1 I really dug this adventure (pun intended) the first half of this adventure. I feel like the relationships and dynamics between the TARDIS team are the strongest I’ve ever seen them, and honestly exactly what I want from a 13th Doctor novel. On the other hand, once we get into the classic who style cave runaround for the majority of the novel, I definitely checked out emotionally. Cool book, but I lost interest about halfway through and I never got it back. PexLives View profile Like Liked 1 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating40 members 3.61 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating532 votes 3.76 / 5 Member Statistics Read 64 Favourited 4 Reviewed 2 Saved 4 Skipped 2 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote