I think that we need a space were we talk about where we talk about the New Series Adventures. We have the Book clubs for the early ones but there are ~75 books in the series and it will take some time for the Club to catch up.
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I have listened to about half of Apollo 23. I think that it is a great book with an interesting mystery.
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Finished Apollo 23 tonight. I found it to be great. The start of it is really interesting and the rest of it was just fun. The characters are not 100% as many NSA written early in an era but they are good enough. I think that I will start the next 11 and Amy book tomorrow.
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This range is a really mixed bag.
Some amazing stories (Touched By an Angel, The Blood Cell), but a lot of… books that aren’t very good.
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I think that explanation could fit almost all ranges of EU stuff. What I like about the NSA is that they are light-hearted. I have tried with some of the VNA stuff and even if some of them are good, they do tend to take themselves too seriously and do the kind of fake adult stuff where sex/drugs are just dropped in without any substance.
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I have now finished the next NSA with Eleven and Amy, Night of the Humans . It was good, but not as good as the last one. It feels a bit like a waste to have a book narrated by Arthur Darvill and not have Rory in it.
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Oh, that’s a cool, a tier ranking!
I’ve unfortunately read very little of the one’s in that list (not surprising with that many NSA), but I’ve been wanting to read the 15th Doctor ones and they’re all rating in the lower half of your list which makes me rethink if I don’t want to read the Blood Cell first, since people seem to like it a lot overall.
Is it the stories that don’t cut it for you, or the writing, or something entirely different?
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This is so cool! Beautiful chaos being perfect tier is so real. One of my all time favorite Doctor Who books. Also, while I don’t think Only Human is the worst NSA I’ve read, I’m glad to find someone else who’s not a fan. I’m glad other people like it, but I think it can be a bit over hyped. If I made a list I probably would’ve swapped Only Human and Price of Paradise. I really need to reread Blood Cell. Haven’t looked at it since I was a kid so I don’t remember a lot of it, but everyone on here always seems to be talking about how good it is.
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I’m so down for a New Series Adventures thread. A little over a year ago I set out to read all the tenth doctor ones (planning on doing nine and twelve next), and over spring break I think I’m FINALLY going to be able to finish everything. I have a giant google doc full of notes on everything I read, and over break I’d like to finally go through and input everything in the guide. (I also still need to get around to putting my episode rankings on there).
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The Fifteenth Doctor NSAs are really interesting.
Ruby Red is definitely the best of the bunch, whereas I didn’t really enjoy Caged, and Eden Rebellion is very boring.
My main problem is that none of these books seem to actually fit in with what we’ve seen in Season One. In style, they’re very different to what we’ve seen of Fifteen on screen.
But I do recommend giving these a try, as they encapsulate the NSA series as a whole rather well.
Also, definitely read The Blood Cell! It’s amazing!
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I really liked the first two of 15ths NSA and I would recommend them if you like 15 and Ruby. Especially Ruby Red which feels like an episodes that the season missed by being too short. You can skip the last of them thought.
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Oh I really don’t agree. I think that Ruby Red and Caged would fit in great in the season. They feelt like missing episodes to me.
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While the characterisation was spot on (especially in Ruby Red), I feel the tone of these novels are very different to Fifteen’s TV episodes.
This isn’t the fault of the authors, as they weren’t to know exactly what the series would be like, but they just don’t feel right to me as Fifteenth Doctor adventures.
I do think they work as NSAs though.
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I would say that they have the same tone as CoRR, SB and Rogue.
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I was inspired by @DontBlink to make a ranking instead of working on my mid terms
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Just finished Borrowed Time, really enjoyed it. Captures the Moffat era quite well(postive) with a lot of “timey wimey ideas” and some anti capitalist commentary
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I’ve read a few NSA’s and most of them are good. I mainly have 12 and 11 stories. Some of my favorites are Touched By An Angel, Deep Time and Nuclear Time. Then there’s some that are decent like Hunter’s Moon.
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Finished the audiobook for The Forgotten Army. I keep thinking that it is named The Forgotten Amy, but that doesn’t fit the story at all 
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The book is okay, nothing special, about a small alien race that invades New York through a Trojan Mammoth. Amy and the Doctor are well written. The best part of the audiobook is that it is read by Olivia Colman. She is an amazing actress and I still would like her to play the Doctor or the Master sometime. She could also be a good Romana. I just want her to be a Time Lord .
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Listened to Nuclear Time during my vacation. It was okay but I was hoping for more Amy and Rory. I also feelt like all the play with time did not pay off enough in the end. I do appreciate that it tried to use time as an element something that we don’t we enough of in general, even if it did not succeed at least it tried.
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