It can be one for completing the EDAs. “I’ve already played my concerto” would be a fantastic badge phrase, actually.
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Get to the back of the pity queue, @Speechless. I started reading the EDAs around 1997 and I am still only as far as having finished The Burning in January 2023 and none of them since!
It’s taken me over 25 years to read 37 books…
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Wow… you’d been reading these since I was born… 
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Have I told you how much I hate you…
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no you don’t 
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I started in either 2018 or 2019, and I only have 6 left, but that was helped by multiple lengthy periods where I had lots of downtime at work and nothing else to do (they didn’t like us having our phones out, but apparently books were okay)
Yeah, The Ancestor Cell right after The Reality War sounds like a wild ride. Who knows, maybe the contrast will help The Ancestor Cell’s more controversial stuff go down better
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I’m on track to complete the EDW series end of 2028. 
Then I’ll start the Target Novelizations.
At least that is the plan!
I’m a fairly fast reader, but only read 4-5 hours a week, so can only read so many per year… LOL! 
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If I was planning on reading ALL the EDAs, I could probably do it in a year or two, not factoring in the time to find and buy all 73 books 
(I don’t like to read on screens). I’m not gonna read all of them though!
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I’m one of those who likes to read everything in order, which is why I’m about to start Kursaal…
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(Kursaal is fun)
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Kursaal lovers are stronger than I will ever be
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Another option is to alternate between EDAs and Targets. The Target novelizations generally tend to be faster reads than the original novels of the 90s and early 2000s. It would take you longer to make it through the EDAs, but might give you some more variety.
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Part of the reason it’s taken me 25 years to read 37 books is because that’s not the only range I’ve been reading, of course. But once I’ve finished the Benny Gods arc from the end of her New Adventures, I’m going to focus on the Eight Stuck on Earth sequence.
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Does Autumn Mist like get better or do I just not like stories set in WWII? Because I’m really really struggling with this… why did we have to ‘kill’ Sam again are you being serious rn…
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It’s not a favourite of mine 
I’ve yet to find a David A. McIntee story I really like — something about the way he writes violence especially makes me dislike his writing style.
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It’s flashing me back to Bullet Time ngl - not because they’re remotely similar but because I think something about the gloomy, grimy atmosphere and violent plots in a McIntee book that just doesn’t work for me
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I honestly think the WWII stuff the best part of it 
Not because it’s particularly good, but because the stuff with the fairies is even worse IMO.
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Autumn Mist: meh. Off the back of Unnatural History, this one is sorely lacking. See my above comments for how I struggled to get through. Because I did. Only a short review this time, because honestly idk if even anything happened in this book at all
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I started Kursaal last night on my laptop and got about 10 pages in, but then found a physical copy online for a fiver so figured I’ll wait for it to arrive and read it then
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It’s so bland. I like the bit where the Doctor threatens someone by standing in front of a projector, and using the fact that his shadow’s been stolen so he doesn’t block the light to help indimidate them, and the vision of the tardis’s true form is kind of cool, but that’s about it.
But now that’s over, it’s Interference time! 
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