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Eighth Doctor Adventures #38
Doctor Who: Casualties of War
Hawkswick Hall has been transformed into a psychiatric hospital for soldiers shell-shocked during World War One. When local livestock and family pets are found violently mutilated, witness accounts point to horrifically wounded soldiers. The Doctor heads to the hospital to investigate -- two of the inmates have mysteriously disappeared -- and is told by one of the patients that there is an evil presence in the Hall. The key to the mystery lies in that eerie basement room in Hawkswick Hall.
283 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 4, 2000
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August 27, 2023
Revisiting the EDA's in the correct order has definitely made me appreciate them even more.
This title is the second in the 'Earth Arc' that sees an amnesiac Eighth Doctor arrive in the northern village of Hawkswich during the end of the First World War.
The author's debut novel harrowingly explores the horrors of war with a spooky mystery surrounding the undead.
This is a really strong character piece that the reader can easily care about, whilst the Doctor also feels well presented here as he rediscovers himself.
This title is the second in the 'Earth Arc' that sees an amnesiac Eighth Doctor arrive in the northern village of Hawkswich during the end of the First World War.
The author's debut novel harrowingly explores the horrors of war with a spooky mystery surrounding the undead.
This is a really strong character piece that the reader can easily care about, whilst the Doctor also feels well presented here as he rediscovers himself.
July 29, 2022
Rating: 2.5 stars
This book was aiming for a 3, maybe a 3.5 depending on how the conclusion panned out, but it fell off a bit towards the end. It was possibly a little too rushed, plus I think it could have worked better should there have been a touch more foreshadowing throughout the rest of the story.
I did like the dynamic with Mary Minett and the Doctor, though it got to be more so on the romance side of things, perhaps slightly too heavily at times for my taste at least (and I should mention that my “taste” when it comes to romance is for it to be minimal). It was fun to read about anyway.
The Eighth Doctor always feels like a stranger to me. Obviously we didn't get much of him on screen, so it is automatically going to be weird consuming other media that includes him. With all the others, I go into their additional content knowing a fair amount about their characters and personalities, but Eight…? We saw him for barely and hour and a half. All we really know is that he’s Paul McGann. That’s about it. I own one more Eighth Doctor novel, so I will be interested to see how he reads in that one… when I eventually get to it.
" 'As someone once very famously said,' he gave Briggs a stern look, and spoke with a mock-foreign accent, ' "I'll be back!" '
Then he was gone again, marching off through the dark with Briggs at his heels.
'Who famously said that then?' Briggs asked breathlessly, struggling to keep up.
'Oh, I don't know,' the Doctor replied dismissively. 'Can't remember. Probably somebody like Napoleon.' "
This book was aiming for a 3, maybe a 3.5 depending on how the conclusion panned out, but it fell off a bit towards the end. It was possibly a little too rushed, plus I think it could have worked better should there have been a touch more foreshadowing throughout the rest of the story.
I did like the dynamic with Mary Minett and the Doctor, though it got to be more so on the romance side of things, perhaps slightly too heavily at times for my taste at least (and I should mention that my “taste” when it comes to romance is for it to be minimal). It was fun to read about anyway.
The Eighth Doctor always feels like a stranger to me. Obviously we didn't get much of him on screen, so it is automatically going to be weird consuming other media that includes him. With all the others, I go into their additional content knowing a fair amount about their characters and personalities, but Eight…? We saw him for barely and hour and a half. All we really know is that he’s Paul McGann. That’s about it. I own one more Eighth Doctor novel, so I will be interested to see how he reads in that one… when I eventually get to it.
November 16, 2025
Reread 14/11/2025
I’ve read Casualties Of War twice, first all at once and then again over several weeks. I’ve found that it’s a book you need to gobble up as fast as you can.
Steve Emmerson’s tale of First World War trauma wreaking havoc on a small village is visceral and emotive, but if you pause to think about it there are issues. There’s very little plot, and what there is doesn’t amount to much. The writing is often variable, swinging between strange bits of expression and something more generic. In short it feels under-edited, but the horror beats are still grisly and effective, and Mary Minett (a would-be love interest for the Doctor) is worth reading it for all by herself.
Original review 18/02/2023
Casualties Of War picks up the story of an amnesiac Eighth Doctor some time after The Burning. Near the end of the First World War, a spate of “hauntings” in the town of Hawkswick draws him - still missing a few marbles - to investigate.
In the main, this is a genuinely spooky story with some horrifying imagery. Wartime trauma is personified and runs amok. But the threat feels smaller and more personal than in the average Doctor Who plot, as it - like the phantoms causing all the ruckus - stalks a lonely town and its few denizens.
The absence of the young men of Hawkswick is keenly felt, particularly by Mary Minnett, a brilliant young woman who instantly clicks with the Doctor and is haunted by her own losses. A real chemistry is found between the two, helped by very well observed writing of the Doctor. Even without his memories his personality is clear, his ability to intrigue and win people over front and centre. It’s a great showcase for this particular Doctor, mixing his abundant charm and attractiveness with a subtle determination. He is more on top of things than he was in The Burning.
There is a tendency in the action scenes to key up a horrible outcome and then get out of it (which is all the better for the characters, but do it too often and it becomes habit), and there’s a certain metaphysical weirdness to the final act that feels too removed from the creeping horrors of the rest of the book. (Also, I’m not entirely sure why all those cows exploded.) But fortunately we’re in nitpick territory.
Steve Emmerson’s writing is thoughtful and pacey. The characters feel like they have inner lives; I care when they’re in peril, and I’m happy to read about them even when the Doctor is out. While the trauma of soldiers is exploited by a villainous force, that doesn’t feel true of the book, which is one I’d recommend even if you aren’t a big Doctor Who reader.
I’ve read Casualties Of War twice, first all at once and then again over several weeks. I’ve found that it’s a book you need to gobble up as fast as you can.
Steve Emmerson’s tale of First World War trauma wreaking havoc on a small village is visceral and emotive, but if you pause to think about it there are issues. There’s very little plot, and what there is doesn’t amount to much. The writing is often variable, swinging between strange bits of expression and something more generic. In short it feels under-edited, but the horror beats are still grisly and effective, and Mary Minett (a would-be love interest for the Doctor) is worth reading it for all by herself.
Original review 18/02/2023
Casualties Of War picks up the story of an amnesiac Eighth Doctor some time after The Burning. Near the end of the First World War, a spate of “hauntings” in the town of Hawkswick draws him - still missing a few marbles - to investigate.
In the main, this is a genuinely spooky story with some horrifying imagery. Wartime trauma is personified and runs amok. But the threat feels smaller and more personal than in the average Doctor Who plot, as it - like the phantoms causing all the ruckus - stalks a lonely town and its few denizens.
The absence of the young men of Hawkswick is keenly felt, particularly by Mary Minnett, a brilliant young woman who instantly clicks with the Doctor and is haunted by her own losses. A real chemistry is found between the two, helped by very well observed writing of the Doctor. Even without his memories his personality is clear, his ability to intrigue and win people over front and centre. It’s a great showcase for this particular Doctor, mixing his abundant charm and attractiveness with a subtle determination. He is more on top of things than he was in The Burning.
There is a tendency in the action scenes to key up a horrible outcome and then get out of it (which is all the better for the characters, but do it too often and it becomes habit), and there’s a certain metaphysical weirdness to the final act that feels too removed from the creeping horrors of the rest of the book. (Also, I’m not entirely sure why all those cows exploded.) But fortunately we’re in nitpick territory.
Steve Emmerson’s writing is thoughtful and pacey. The characters feel like they have inner lives; I care when they’re in peril, and I’m happy to read about them even when the Doctor is out. While the trauma of soldiers is exploited by a villainous force, that doesn’t feel true of the book, which is one I’d recommend even if you aren’t a big Doctor Who reader.
April 8, 2024
My first EDA! After all these years. Haha. Pretty solid all around. Very good horror premise; good pacing. Maybe doesn’t entirely stick the landing but still very entertaining. A little thing I enjoyed was that the Doctor was already on the scene as the action of the novel begins. We didn’t do the usual thing from the show, where the Doctor shows up, stumbles into trouble, gets blamed for that trouble, etc. There’s trouble going down, and he was already there checking it out. I thought that was a good choice.
September 25, 2025
It’s oddly paced - there’s no real sense of a normal three act structure - and the conclusion is trundled towards, basically happening ‘off screen’, but despite all that… It was a real delight spending time with these characters, in a quiet Yorkshire village on the edge of war, with the most touching epilogues. These books also nail the Doctor’s characterisation - enigmatic, joyful, mysterious, oblivious, all-knowing - it’s just *the* Doctor.
September 18, 2021
Steve Emmerson is a Doctor Who author who doesn’t quite have much information anywhere that I can find. He has a website, but that hasn’t been updated since 2007, and outside of Casualties of War, the book I’m looking at today, there is only one other book he wrote (another Eighth Doctor Adventure), and he published nothing outside of these two Doctor Who books. It’s odd, especially as Big Finish Productions was already publishing audio dramas at this point. This makes it an even more odd that Emmerson’s debut, Casualties of War, is an excellent examination of shell shock and World War I, all wrapped in a zombie style B-movie. The Doctor finds himself in a small Yorkshire village which has a hospital for shellshocked soldiers. He sets himself up as a man from the ministry, here to inspect things in the vaguest way possible, in actuality investigating strange, almost paranormal events. Emmerson’s setting of this village is incredibly evocative, with this deep dive into the mud and grime of the trenches without actually going to the trenches, but looking right at the aftermath and the effects of war. There isn’t a an idea of being bogged down with the actual fighting, but sending the soldiers home and the idea of soldiers wanting to go back.
Emmerson evokes German expressionism with sleepwalking soldiers overseen by a mysterious doctor who doesn’t cooperate with the Doctor. Charles Banham initially comes across as a kindly doctor genuinely trying to help these poor patients, letting them wander around at night with the idea being that it’s good therapy. It’s eventually revealed that there is something nefarious, but for much of the book it is importantly seen as ridiculous that these sleepwalking soldiers could be doing something bad. It makes the eventual reveal of the zombie like creatures, drawing from the Jewish Golem, rising from the mud to do its master’s bidding. There are some red herrings as to who is actually controlling the Golems, but the villain is almost sympathetic. There’s this definite idea of the horrors of war, there is this idea that Banham does want to have something good with stopping the people from their shellshock. The villain is a doctor, after all. It’s a story that evokes films like The Wicker Man with connections to ancient paganism and the Yorkshire setting tying in quite a lot with a woman, Mary Minnett, having connections to paganism. There is this red herring that she could be a villain, but she and Constable Briggs are essentially pseudo-companions for the Eighth Doctor. Mary has this relationship with the Doctor, not quite being romantic as the Eighth Doctor is asexual here (except one implication of a relationship with William Shakespeare), she is essentially the trope of a voodoo witch while the Doctor here is attempting to be as rational. There is this lovely conversation near the end about the meeting with Fitz in 2001 and the hope that the Doctor has to keep going on. The Doctor is still a wanderer, he doesn’t really fit in with the time, is questioned as to why he isn’t serving his time. The audience knows that the Doctor is ancient, but he looks like he should have been.
Overall, Casualties of War is a standout book from a first time author which only falls flat with some of the pacing having points where it is unable to keep going. The characters are utterly brilliant and the Eighth Doctor has just this new characterization which is a direct reaction to The Ancestor Cell and The Burning, as he has been waiting giving the reader something new and a new brilliant streak of books. 8/10.
Emmerson evokes German expressionism with sleepwalking soldiers overseen by a mysterious doctor who doesn’t cooperate with the Doctor. Charles Banham initially comes across as a kindly doctor genuinely trying to help these poor patients, letting them wander around at night with the idea being that it’s good therapy. It’s eventually revealed that there is something nefarious, but for much of the book it is importantly seen as ridiculous that these sleepwalking soldiers could be doing something bad. It makes the eventual reveal of the zombie like creatures, drawing from the Jewish Golem, rising from the mud to do its master’s bidding. There are some red herrings as to who is actually controlling the Golems, but the villain is almost sympathetic. There’s this definite idea of the horrors of war, there is this idea that Banham does want to have something good with stopping the people from their shellshock. The villain is a doctor, after all. It’s a story that evokes films like The Wicker Man with connections to ancient paganism and the Yorkshire setting tying in quite a lot with a woman, Mary Minnett, having connections to paganism. There is this red herring that she could be a villain, but she and Constable Briggs are essentially pseudo-companions for the Eighth Doctor. Mary has this relationship with the Doctor, not quite being romantic as the Eighth Doctor is asexual here (except one implication of a relationship with William Shakespeare), she is essentially the trope of a voodoo witch while the Doctor here is attempting to be as rational. There is this lovely conversation near the end about the meeting with Fitz in 2001 and the hope that the Doctor has to keep going on. The Doctor is still a wanderer, he doesn’t really fit in with the time, is questioned as to why he isn’t serving his time. The audience knows that the Doctor is ancient, but he looks like he should have been.
Overall, Casualties of War is a standout book from a first time author which only falls flat with some of the pacing having points where it is unable to keep going. The characters are utterly brilliant and the Eighth Doctor has just this new characterization which is a direct reaction to The Ancestor Cell and The Burning, as he has been waiting giving the reader something new and a new brilliant streak of books. 8/10.
October 3, 2017
MORE. GODDAMN. ZOMBIES! This time, actual zombies. Multiple ones. So probably the most zombie-like of this whole run of "oh my god, get the zombies out of my Doctor Who" I've been complaining about. And yet, I liked it better than the others!
This was down to the really great characters in the village. Loved the midwife/vet/town nurse, the giant ox of a farmer, the elderly rural bobby. The patients at the hospital were great, too, and I was sad to see the ones die who did. The hardest part of this book for me was the WWI stuff, which leaned heavily on the horrors of the trenches--not even in a salacious horror-porn way (that would be THE ZOMBIES!) but just because WWI was such an extremely, brutally, grindingly horrible thing. Those parts were offset by the beautiful village and the decent people who lived in it, so that helped.
I also enjoyed the writing style of this book more than some. It was lighter (easier to read, less of a slog) and less pedestrian in its word choices, which made for some really great descriptions and interesting turns of phrase. I've seen some people disliking Mary's romantic feelings for the Doctor, but I found it quite nice to get to see Eight described as beautiful and fascinating, and not just for his mind. Some of us readers think he's gorgeous, too, and completely refusing to address that aspect of this Doctor gets old (especially when one gets the feeling it's because the authors are straight men who can't handle describing another man's beauty). I honestly wanted these two to bang, and feel like they only didn't because "the Doctor doesn't sleep with people" was in the series bible.
Amnesia plot continues. Eight is very much himself personality-wise at this point, but about where he as in the TV movie in terms of remembering fuck-all about his past (anything before the previous novel). I love when he comes out with random bits of information and he has no idea why he knows them. It's okay, bb, you'll get your memory back! Oh, and then be traumatized all over again just like the soldiers in the psych ward here, because OH YEAH the reason you lost your memory in the first place miiiight have something to do with blowing up your own planet in a space-time war? Haha. I love ya, Eight.
This was down to the really great characters in the village. Loved the midwife/vet/town nurse, the giant ox of a farmer, the elderly rural bobby. The patients at the hospital were great, too, and I was sad to see the ones die who did. The hardest part of this book for me was the WWI stuff, which leaned heavily on the horrors of the trenches--not even in a salacious horror-porn way (that would be THE ZOMBIES!) but just because WWI was such an extremely, brutally, grindingly horrible thing. Those parts were offset by the beautiful village and the decent people who lived in it, so that helped.
I also enjoyed the writing style of this book more than some. It was lighter (easier to read, less of a slog) and less pedestrian in its word choices, which made for some really great descriptions and interesting turns of phrase. I've seen some people disliking Mary's romantic feelings for the Doctor, but I found it quite nice to get to see Eight described as beautiful and fascinating, and not just for his mind. Some of us readers think he's gorgeous, too, and completely refusing to address that aspect of this Doctor gets old (especially when one gets the feeling it's because the authors are straight men who can't handle describing another man's beauty). I honestly wanted these two to bang, and feel like they only didn't because "the Doctor doesn't sleep with people" was in the series bible.
Amnesia plot continues. Eight is very much himself personality-wise at this point, but about where he as in the TV movie in terms of remembering fuck-all about his past (anything before the previous novel). I love when he comes out with random bits of information and he has no idea why he knows them. It's okay, bb, you'll get your memory back! Oh, and then be traumatized all over again just like the soldiers in the psych ward here, because OH YEAH the reason you lost your memory in the first place miiiight have something to do with blowing up your own planet in a space-time war? Haha. I love ya, Eight.
April 8, 2009
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2063188.html[return][return]An Eighth Doctor book which is set during the First World War, with the amnesiac Doctor now investigating mysterious happenings in a hospital for convalescent soldiers. For what is basically a zombie story, it is done rather well, with a particularly good one-off companion (Mary, the village midwife) whose emotional path is similar to many of the New Who companions, and other nicely depicted supporting characters. Would appeal to non-Who fans more than most.
December 1, 2020
One of the best Dr Who books not based on a TV story that I have read. Characters have depth and the story has substance and believe it or not it’s all quite believable!
October 13, 2025
Another in the list of the eighth doctor books. and Well, this one is about as stock as you can get.
This is part 2 of 5 of his whole "i have amnesia and stuck on Earth" mini-arc. He's by himself (no fitz or companion) and is trying to figure out the mystery behind dead animals in a town in England with a WWI PTSD mental hospital. And it leads to monster of the week shenanigans.
This book had several things going on. Lots of talking, lots of philosophy, and a hell of a lot of tea drinking. Like my god. there must have been at least ten scenes of them drinking tea. I know this book is British, but hot damn.
The story and the monster situation is a little confusing and doesn't wrap up very satisfyingly, but i wouldn't go so far as to say the book was BAD. The main characters are fine, the girl who helps the doctor, the cop, and the farmer guy and his wife are all fine characters, it just felt like this book should have been a lot shorter, like a novella, and got stretched out to a full novel. There really wasn't that much story to justify an entire book.
It's padded out with scenes of tea drinking and picnics, even after the people have seen zombies, they just go about their day, chat, and have tea.
The ending was a little confusing, and overall it wasn't a fantastic addition to the 8th book series, but it wasn't awful by any means. it's a solid 3 out of 5. Not good enough to make me want to reread it later, but not bad enough to be offensive. It's just a forgettable one in the middle. Steve Emmerson only wrote 2 doc who books, this and one other 8th doctor i'll get to in about 10 books. So hopefully book 2 will be better as it's his last chance to do better with doc who.
I'll just say if you're trying to read through the 8th doctor adventures and you decide you want to only read the ones that are relevant and necessary to the overall arcing plot of the 8th doc series, you can 100% skip this one.
Zombies, golems, and PTSD people that's what you'll get here. That and tea. a LOT of tea.
3 out of 5.
This is part 2 of 5 of his whole "i have amnesia and stuck on Earth" mini-arc. He's by himself (no fitz or companion) and is trying to figure out the mystery behind dead animals in a town in England with a WWI PTSD mental hospital. And it leads to monster of the week shenanigans.
This book had several things going on. Lots of talking, lots of philosophy, and a hell of a lot of tea drinking. Like my god. there must have been at least ten scenes of them drinking tea. I know this book is British, but hot damn.
The story and the monster situation is a little confusing and doesn't wrap up very satisfyingly, but i wouldn't go so far as to say the book was BAD. The main characters are fine, the girl who helps the doctor, the cop, and the farmer guy and his wife are all fine characters, it just felt like this book should have been a lot shorter, like a novella, and got stretched out to a full novel. There really wasn't that much story to justify an entire book.
It's padded out with scenes of tea drinking and picnics, even after the people have seen zombies, they just go about their day, chat, and have tea.
The ending was a little confusing, and overall it wasn't a fantastic addition to the 8th book series, but it wasn't awful by any means. it's a solid 3 out of 5. Not good enough to make me want to reread it later, but not bad enough to be offensive. It's just a forgettable one in the middle. Steve Emmerson only wrote 2 doc who books, this and one other 8th doctor i'll get to in about 10 books. So hopefully book 2 will be better as it's his last chance to do better with doc who.
I'll just say if you're trying to read through the 8th doctor adventures and you decide you want to only read the ones that are relevant and necessary to the overall arcing plot of the 8th doc series, you can 100% skip this one.
Zombies, golems, and PTSD people that's what you'll get here. That and tea. a LOT of tea.
3 out of 5.
July 10, 2025
Clearly, the theme of this novel is "war is hell". We know this, but the author insists on driving that home, giving life to the horrors and psychosis of war in the form of clay golems. The 'why' is clearly explained, but the 'how' is definitely not, as well as other plot points. (Why are the golems blowing up farm animals? Where are they getting the explosives? How is Banham channeling all the grief and horror? Where did he get that book? How did he know how to use it?) The narrative is awfully slow to start, and things don't really start kicking into high gear until the last third or so of the story. There's body horror, and death, and PTSD galore, so be forewarned before you dig in. Also, the resolution happens off screen- we don't know what exactly the Doctor does or how he does it- we only get the explanation he gives Mary and Briggs. There's too much foot dragging to start (an entire chapter dedicated to a picnic and reciting Shakespeare), and then a rush to the non-descriptive ending.
Hats off to the real hero of this story- Cromby- who single handedly fights the golems off his farm without the Doctor's help.
Casualties of War is your typical monster-of-the-week DW story, but don't expect to receive all the answers you want by the end.
Hats off to the real hero of this story- Cromby- who single handedly fights the golems off his farm without the Doctor's help.
Casualties of War is your typical monster-of-the-week DW story, but don't expect to receive all the answers you want by the end.
January 3, 2021
Bit of a slog to get through, there's little movement in the plot (the end is not much further on from the beginning) and another tedious "woman falls instantly in love with the Doctor" subplot. I'd only read this again if I was completing another full run-through of the EDAs, unlike say War of the Daleks which is readable on its own.
January 26, 2024
Still working my way through the Doctor Who novels. This is an 8th Doctor story done during the wilderness years I think. Not too bad.
April 25, 2024
Another book about the one-episode eighth Doctor. This book was so bad I couldn't finish it. The Doctor has no personality, the story is gruesome, and the characters are just boring.
February 17, 2013
While the story was an interesting one, I didn't appreciate the perspective. Mary Minett was a strong and endearing female character, but her infatuation with the Doctor was annoying. I don't mind if people fall in love with the Doctor, but I don't want to have to listen to a constant stream of over-dramatized speculations about his 'inner mysteriousness.' The writer's voice often sounded young and awkward, making the story uncomfortable.
Every scene seemed to end in a contrived cliff-hanger in which someone was inevitably being shot---and then miraculously not getting shot. That got old fast.
Possibly due to the eighth Doctor's condition, the bad guys were never very well explained. Basically, psychic zombies with magic powers.
It's interesting to see how the Doctor acts without his past chasing him. There's a reversion to lots of the first Doctor's personality traits. I think he also thinks he's human, which is intriguing.
If you love the Doctor, go ahead and read it.
Every scene seemed to end in a contrived cliff-hanger in which someone was inevitably being shot---and then miraculously not getting shot. That got old fast.
Possibly due to the eighth Doctor's condition, the bad guys were never very well explained. Basically, psychic zombies with magic powers.
It's interesting to see how the Doctor acts without his past chasing him. There's a reversion to lots of the first Doctor's personality traits. I think he also thinks he's human, which is intriguing.
If you love the Doctor, go ahead and read it.
February 27, 2016
Sooooo boring. I understand wanting to reboot after how convoluted the story had gotten, but it's like they had a stack of generic historical mysteries sitting unpublished and slapped the Doctor Who name on them. One amnesia book was enough to reboot this thing then skip the next hundred years and get on with it. With the amnesia angel it's not even like it's the Doctor. They could replace him with any generic Holmesian eccentric and these stories would be unchanged. I don't think I can make it through three more of this garbage. I'm going to skip to when it's Doctor Who again.
April 29, 2016
The Doctor goes to a small English village in the middle of WW1. The dead have been spotted, mysterious explosions, and a hospital for soldiers with mental issues is near by. This is a really creepy book, it goes more to the horror than most Doctor Who novels. This is not one for the faint hearted. There is a feeling of doom throughout, with corpses threatening innocents. The horror of war is well written, and the way the soldiers are coping is delicately handled. A really great read.
December 16, 2024
I thought the majority of the book was mostly brilliant. A lot of the characters felt lived in and the small countryside setting was lovely. However I wasn’t too fond of the way the ending was done. Plus some important plot points were implemented without warning or buildup. Nonetheless the book delivers in creating both an entertaining and thrilling journey.
June 11, 2011
Achingly sad and exquisitely gentle. For such a quiet novel, it packs an "iron fist in velvet glove" impact...which is quite suitable when you throw the Doctor at WWI and watch the resulting chaos.
November 23, 2023
An excellent continuation of the soft reboot of the series that began with The Burning. The Doctor is very well written with some genuine emotion drawn from his new life, there's plenty of decent horror, and the guest characters are strong too.
April 12, 2010
Well THAT was depressing. A good sort of depressing, but yeesh. There are, as it turns out, a lot of casualties in this one.
March 2, 2010
Standard for a Who book, ie very good indeed. Emotional.
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