Having tried unsuccessfully to read my way through two entirely unrelated novels (about which I will not post yet, unless I actually decide to finish them properly, since they don't count for Book Log purposes), I finally settled today on succumbing to the siren call of the Doctor. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spazzkat, when I said as much on the Murkworks MUSH: "It's saying 'Would you like a jelly baby?'") With all the delightful Doctor fandom things that have been going around LJ lately, this is probably to be expected of me. ;)
Mike Tucker's The Nightmare of Black Island is a Tenth Doctor book, one of the new hardback series, and this one's Ten and Rose. It's a pretty standard-type Doctor adventure: you got your spooky remote locale (including an abandoned lighthouse), you got your townsfolk all scared of spooky things going on, you got your mysterious recluse up to mysterious doings. And oh yeah, there's also aliens! But it's also a fairly kid-friendly adventure, too; nothing terribly scary, and nothing unusual in the way of character development for either Rose or the Doctor (modulo an amusing throwaway line the Doctor has about how he never sleeps, because he'd tried it once and didn't like it). There's also a Torchwood joke that made me grin.
Very fast read, though, so a bit less substantial than I'd have liked; the prose was pretty lightweight and one or two places where I wanted another comma or two. Two and a half stars.
Special bonus Book Log note: As I now have seven books left before I hit 100 books read this year, I hereby announce that those seven books are going to be the entire Harry Potter series. I've already read books 1-3, but I don't remember a lick of 'em past what plot points are in the movies, so I might as well re-read 'em. This should be interesting.
spazzkat, when I said as much on the Murkworks MUSH: "It's saying 'Would you like a jelly baby?'") With all the delightful Doctor fandom things that have been going around LJ lately, this is probably to be expected of me. ;)Mike Tucker's The Nightmare of Black Island is a Tenth Doctor book, one of the new hardback series, and this one's Ten and Rose. It's a pretty standard-type Doctor adventure: you got your spooky remote locale (including an abandoned lighthouse), you got your townsfolk all scared of spooky things going on, you got your mysterious recluse up to mysterious doings. And oh yeah, there's also aliens! But it's also a fairly kid-friendly adventure, too; nothing terribly scary, and nothing unusual in the way of character development for either Rose or the Doctor (modulo an amusing throwaway line the Doctor has about how he never sleeps, because he'd tried it once and didn't like it). There's also a Torchwood joke that made me grin.
Very fast read, though, so a bit less substantial than I'd have liked; the prose was pretty lightweight and one or two places where I wanted another comma or two. Two and a half stars.
Special bonus Book Log note: As I now have seven books left before I hit 100 books read this year, I hereby announce that those seven books are going to be the entire Harry Potter series. I've already read books 1-3, but I don't remember a lick of 'em past what plot points are in the movies, so I might as well re-read 'em. This should be interesting.
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