A comforting retelling of a familiar story that hits all the right beats. The additional framing device at the beginning and end is as sweet as it is niche, referencing a similar framing device for the stories’ second transmission!

Frazer Hines and co do enough to give this story a new life without revolutionising it. But sometimes that’s exactly what you want.

This novel is amazing it takes the repeat broadcast of evil of the daleks but adds in the Zoe 2nd and Jamie talk as the doctor shows Zoe what happens it’s really cleaver tbh