Stories Short Story Heroes and Monsters Collection Secret of Arkatron 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 1 Statistics Quotes Overview Released Thursday, August 5, 2010 Written by Justin Richards Pages 15 Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Robots Inventory (Potential Spoilers!) Sonic Screwdriver Location (Potential Spoilers!) Space Synopsis Secret of Arkatron was a short prose story published in August 2010 by BBC Children's Books. 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 Eleventh Doctor Amy Pond How to read Secret of Arkatron: Books Heroes and Monsters Collection 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 1 review 16 October 2024 · 133 words Review by JayPea Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! Just when I was talking about short stories not feeling like they talk down to their readers. Some of this definitely feels like talking down or dumbing down, some of it is fairly generic haunted house but actually space type-deal, and some of it is just the characters acting pretty out of character. Again there's the thing of a few lines here and there where I don't believe characters would say that like that, and while it's not major it's enough to take me out of it. And then the ending with The Doctor re-trapping the villain in permanent conscious stasis forever... I mean sure he's done that kind of thing before (Family of Blood and Rogue come to mind), but there it's given appropriate weight, here it's just sort of glossed over. Like Liked 1 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating8 members 3.32 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating4 votes 3.50 / 5 Member Statistics Read 10 Favourited 0 Reviewed 1 Saved 1 Skipped 0 Owned 0 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote