Thursday, June 5, 2008

"The Stone Rose" - Jacqueline Rayner

Another Doctor Who novel, this one featuring the 10th Doctor and Rose. These really are aimed at an all-ages audience; the writing is not overly complex. Nonetheless, I did enjoy the book. The Doctor and Rose travel to Rome to investigate the origins of a 2000 year old statue of Rose they find in the British Museum.

After some major suspension of disbelief as the Doctor is thrown to the lions in the Colliseum, the final third of the novel offered up some wonderful moments of time-travel conundrums and ramifications of extreme future tech. Also, the characterizations of Rose, the Doctor and Mickey are spot on and enjoyable.

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