Time for another book! We are going to read together Peacemaker
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Finally another Western!!
I’ve read about half of the book, and it’s decent so far.
Ooh, another one I’ve already read (when I was going through a bit of a Western stage in my marathon - which is why my review keeps referencing other Doctor Who westerns).
I read this book a while ago and luckily found my review for it again, but before I add that one; what I remember about it is essentially: It’s a nice book, and I remember liking Martha in that one? And I liked the parts that the Doctor got in the last third of the book!
Okay, I just checked, and my review was pretty much that; “It was a nice, unique story with a likeable cast of characters.
Also quite some Doctor post-time war momentsa and guilt.
And Martha also got her moments to shine.”
I hate this book…
No likeable characters, boring plot, and unnecessary racism all amount to one of the most unpleasant books I have ever read.
It’s been a fair while since I read this but I don’t remember racism being present. Can you expand on this?
(I also think some of the characters were good fun, at least based on my review comments).
It has also been a long time since I read it but my prevailing memory of the novel is finding the character of Walking Crow racist. However, as I said, it has been a while since I read it and I could just be misremembering/misinterpreting things. Or it’s just me being biased against Westerns 
Oh I get the biased towards Westerns thing…
I hate the genre. Weirdly though, when I did a load of Doctor Who Westerns together I found I actually enjoyed a fair few of them including this one. I actually thought all the characters were pretty well-written in this and probably any racism was in a historical context (not that that makes it okay, but it would fit with trying to write the time period authentically).
This one was an 8/10 for the longest time, but by the third act, it fell into yet another cave-dwelling episode with the Doctor sacrificing himself and being saved by a kiss, and the setting was sort of wasted. So I ended up giving it a 7/10.
Review coming later!
Oh they made this into a TV show on Sky! They adapted the Doctor out, sadly. And Martha. But it’s decent. Waiting for the adaptation to really get going though.
Two months later where is the review!!!
Listened to this today and I agree with you. A fun book that lost its pacing a bit in the end, 3.5/5
Sorry, the draft is still on my drive; I haven’t finished it yet (but maybe I should do it, just for you 
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I am particular about westerns, but I didn’t think it was too bad. Most of the story was pretty okay, but I really liked the fact that Martha got a few times to shine, especially when she got to speak about smallpox and other illnesses. I wish they had actually let Martha be a doctor a lot more.