Time for another book! We are going to read together The Feast of the Drowned
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I have a lot of nostalgia for this one because I got the free CD of part 1 back when I was younger, and I always thought it was such a cool name. I always love ship and ocean based stories too so this is perfect for me. Some of the narrative focusing on a friend of Rose and Mickey is a nice grounding element and makes the stakes a bit more real as they’re often very whatever in these NSA novels I find. The Tenth Doctor is characterised quite nicely here, Cole is a solid writer and there are some nice action scenes. I don’t have much to say but it was a sold, fun story.
I’ve told myself I’ve read this one but I can’t for the life of me remember anything about it. know I have the audiobook version which I got for free and I think it’s possibly that I listened to that.
This is the first NSA book I listened to. And I have to say that I quite liked it. David Tennant is a great narrator and gave all characters distinct voices - his Ten, Rose and Mickey are all wonderful.
Stephen Cole writes a very accurate Ten, which makes this much more enjoyable. The plot i standard fare for New Who, but I like the aquatic elements and the focus on Rose’s friend, who is strongly affected by the adventure. The aliens are pretty forgettable.
This is a fast-paced adventure, with some fun quips here and there and great action scenes. Overall, I’d rate it an 8/10.
I read this a couple of months ago and don’t remember that many details. I thought that it was a fine read and a fine characterisation but nothing special. 3/5
Oy you stole this out of my mind word for word somehow. Witchcraft! 
Well, great minds think alike and all that
(It’d be more interesting if you were a witch… )
Who says I’m not?
Perhaps I am a witch!
Or perhaps I am a Time Lord using my amazing mental capabilities to probe your mind!
That remains to be seen…
Just started this one yesterday and oh boy does Ten not come off well in this one in the first couple of chapters. Standing around and sulking while Rose comforts her friend whose brother has fully been KIA, generally just showing off and being a little belligerent. There’s also a bit of inner monologue from Rose basically talking about how eager The Doctor is to show her how crap her old life was and how exciting and fantastic her “new life” with him is. Reading it, reminding myself that Rose is canonically 19 years old here, that does not fill me with tremendously good feeling about the nature of that relationship. I don’t think the intention was to make us call that nature into question, I’m sure it’s just a bit of fun wish fulfillment for the kids this book was written for, but in the context of the show and perhaps our own context as fans who are drilling down past surface interpretations, there’s something a little too possessive in the way that Ten treats Rose. Discourse for another day, I think, but that’s what stuck out most.
The central mystery of the book is OK, I guess? Mickey is back and I always like Mickey in print more than I like him with Noel Clarke’s face and performance attached to it. Seems like a lot of these NSAs follow the same sort of format; something bad is happening back in London so 9 or 10 and Rose come back to investigate, there’s been at least two or three now. It makes sense; if you want to do licensed novels and they’re going to mostly be for the young fans of the show, you want to contrive to include as many recognizable faces as you can.