Tag: Mike Tucker

Doctor Who: Illegal Alien

Doctor Who: Illegal Alien

by Mike Tucker & Robert Perry (BBC, 1997); audiobook read by Sophie Aldred (Bolinda, 2016)

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Blandly written and at least twice as long as it needed to be. Great chunks of the story involve treading water, running around pointlessly, and building up characters (both major and minor) that turn out to be nothing more than gross stereotypes.

 

 

Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror

Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror

by Mike Tucker (BBC, 2014); audiobook read by Neve McIntosh

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Although featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Clara, this novel labours along like the most interminable of Third Doctor stories; neither original in content nor polished in execution (think ‘Planet of the Spiders’ meets ‘Invasion of the Dinosaurs’). Neve McIntosh cannot save it.

 

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