I finished this book today, took a while - other books to read as well, Who to watch and listen to - you know how it is 
Slight spoilers for future VNA:
I thought he “borrowed” a bit too much from his own book Tragedy Day for this one, particularly the Hy-Bractors.
Rose and the Doctor felt a tad too bland compared to their onscreen personas, and Jack felt a bit wasted. It seems I am in the minority, but the inserts with Das and Jack in the 21st Century felt totally irrelevant to the story and slowed the narrative down every time they came around.
Overall I would put this one at a 3,5/5 
Only one more with the Ninth Doctor to go 
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Good book, shame about the author.
FULL REVIEW COMING SOON
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Here’s my review!
(I’m sorry, it’s just a tiny but critical…)
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Echoing what most People have said, this is by far the best NSA Book from the first few, at least. A lot of this has to do with the Fact that this one feels much refined in its Identity of being Part of the Revival, while I appreciate the more ‘Serial’ Approach of Past Novels, I don’t think it worked overall as well as some of the Authors would have hoped. This one is clearly written in Mind with the Pacing that the Revival has, and since it’s a Book it has often enough Time to breathe properly.
Of course the Dialogue is the biggest highlight here, I think there are some wonderful Lines to be found, Jack especially gets a good Treatment in this book. It’s always fun seeing the Trio of Rose, 9 & Jack interact or have another Story and this one delivers it quite well I must say. Ohh and how can I forget Jackie? Perhaps the most enjoyable Character in this entire Book!
While this all sounds great, I still had a few Issues with the Novel, I don’t think 9 and Rose have been translated perfectly to the Page and fall at times a bit short. Similarly, I didn’t like some Decisions made in this book, but I can overlook most of them.
There is of course the Business in regard to its Writer, by now most People know about Robert’s horrid Views and while I can separate the Art from the Artist, I don’t blame anybody at all for feeling uncomfortable giving any of his Work a go. There are probably a lot of Opinions on the Subject, so I will just leave it at it with: Buying second hand is the ideal Way to go about it, if one is interested in this book.
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I went into this one with high hopes as I had heard it was one of the best for Nine. It was okay. I agree with many of the others that Jack and Das’ adventures were the highlight of it for me. Getting to see how he is figuring out a new time and place. The story was alright too. I guess I didn’t enjoy it as much as some, but it wasn’t a bad book.
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I can’t really say it’s the best because I’ve only read one other NSA, which I’m gonna be honest I kinda prefer the other one. I agree with dukefan above, I liked it but not as much as everyone else.
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