It’s just a re telling of the Christmas invasion but from the sycorax perspective, which actually isn’t very interesting, at least how this does it. The perspective character is supposed to be a scribe but nothing about the writting gives that impression. It’s just a worse way of experiencing the Christmas invasion that adds very little new

Just once could a story about a Raxacoricofallapatorian not be about them being a Slitheen, being evil, and then being brutally murdered without hesitation? This is just another story that pays lip service to the idea just they’re not all evil but continues to use them as a generic baddy character. Rose mistaking a random guy for a Slitheen was at least something.
Also what kind of fun fair has an actual water slide?

A funny story with a likeable perspective character. Typical silly 8 + Charley interactions too. Definitely worth a listen if you like low stakes stories like that.

I didn't enjoy the writing style of this. Pretty dumbed down, and sometimes it was a first person stream of consciousness thing that's really not for me. The story was also pretty aimless, could have probably been at least one less part long.

The interactions between The Doctor and Houdini where fun though, so that's a positive.

An intriguing story throughout. Bit confusingly written at times but it comes together and makes sense in the end.
Might need a second skim read to fully get it, at least I did, but I was tired when I read this.

Maybe it's just because I've watched the serial so many times that I enjoyed this slightly different version so much but I do highly recommend this if like me you're a big fan of The Time Meddler serial. It's able to expand on the feelings and motivations of the side characters that makes the scenes focussing on them so much more interesting. I never got bored reading this book, where as the serial definitely has moments where it loses me.

If you’ve always wanted to read a doctor who chose your own adventure book, that’s too bad cause this isn’t it.

Instead of making choices for your self insert character 90% of the time you’re deciding ridiculous things like what’s in the next room you go into, which I feel takes all the fun out of the concept. It’s hard to feel like this is a coherent setting when, well, it just isn’t one, or that you’re a character in the story when you don’t actually do much at all as that character. A lot of very meaningless choices as well, that essentially lead to the same outcome.

You can’t even lose the game which is a shame, because some kind of bad ending might have at least been a little interesting. Oh yeah the story isn’t any good either.

The only positive to this I can see is that it’s a very short book so you won’t waste too much of your time reading it.

This short story is a backstory for the character seen accompanying the Rani in Dimensions in time.

On a deserted sandy planet the writing  paints a vivid and engaging description of all the misfortune that fall upon the lead character in this unforgiving world. It was definitely one of those stories I did not want to put down, even to write notes for this review.

I will say a lot of things that happen go unexplained, which left me confused but not in a bad way. I could see that being more a negative thing for other people though.

Definitely read this only if you’ve watched dimensions in time first, because without that context you’ll be left even more confused.

Has a fun concept and I like how the story comes full circle in the end. The plot isn’t anything special, but I didn’t get bored reading it.

The story concept of traveling inside a living body while being cell sized is very very over done and this story doesn’t add anything new to the formula.

Well actually it does add a new kind of white blood cell because they drew them completely wrong, but then again it was inside an alien so what am I even talking about?