Me too 
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Finished The Mary-Sue Extrusion.
Now going to read Wooden Heart before going back to Benny’s Gods Arc.
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Still have over half of Judgement at Tokyo to read, then i might do Goth Opera
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Totally agree about the Ruby’s Curse. The plot is actually really good and intricate but the book is far too long and bits of it really bored me.
(Also I solved the riddle bit super early on and it made River seem really slow by comparison…)
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About 45 mins or so from the end of the Rogue audiobook. I’ll save my thoughts for when it’s finished + for the Rogue novelisation thread
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Finished Anachrophobia today!
Lots of great ideas and a really interesting alien world. I didn’t find this one as scary as others have done, but it was a good read and full of cool imagery!
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Some more thoughts on The Mary-Sue Extrusion (with a full review at some point). I was reading the I Who 2 synopsis and it spends 1 paragraph on the first 200 pages and then 4 paragraphs on the last 40. This is exactly the problem I had with the book (which the commentary in I Who 2 agrees with). It just waffles on for ages with this deliberately unnamed protagonist looking for Bernice and then when they find her, the whole thing has like 10 chapters of story in 40 pages as it rushes to a conclusion. The last 40 pages were actually not bad but that’s because, finally, we had Benny, Jason, Emile and an actual plot.
But ending on ‘I’m not going to give you the name of the character you’ve been following for 245 pages’ is just so ■■■■■■■ irritating. And apparently they come back in a couple of books time, god help me!
I Who 2 suggests this book may have been rushed and my goodness does it show that this didn’t have an editor making it readable rather than a self-indulgent mess of ideas. The New Adventures had to lose the Doctor but had a ready-made replacement in Benny - a fun, likeable, complex character that still exists to this day so was obviously doing something right. But this is a Doctor-less and Benny-less New Adventure and as such just doesn’t have any business being in this series. If the search for Benny plot was integrated into Benny having some sort of adventure herself - or even Jason - it might have been bearable but as it is, the blurb for this is for a much better story than we ended up with.
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I’m just chuffed to see someone referencing the I Who books. Haven’t opened one of them in donkey’s years, but I remember I really liked them.
Don’t remember anything about Mary-Sue specifically, but I do know I’ve struggles with much of Dave Stone’s work. More words than plot, and I think he finds himself funnier than I do.
But hey, you survived! 
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I’ve done a review - a bit of catharthis:
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When I was first getting into Doctor Who around 2010/2011. I was starting to request Who novels through ILL. One of the early ones I got a hold of was Stone’s Heart of TARDIS which features Two/Jamie/Victoria and Four/Romana I/K9. It was so weird that it gave me an uneasy feeling and thus I never finished it.
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At the time, those were probably my two favorite Doctors. I did finish it, but I remember nothing about it, except that I don’t remember it fondly. So, pretty sure I was disappointed with it.
Just because I don’t love being constantly negative, I’ll mention that I did enjoy Stone’s Zardox Break from the A Life in Pieces anthology.
On the other hand, my thoughts on Citadel of Dreams echo Delta’s thoughts on Extrusion a bit…
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Currently reading Juno Dawson’s The Good Doctor and enjoying it so far.
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Just finished “The Ruby’s Curse”.
I just don’t think it’s a very good book. It’s overly long, badly paced, unnecessarily complicated with a underwhelming conclusion.
The Thirteenth Doctor was hardly in it - 7 lines was all and even then it was some sort of mental construct
I can’t really rate it higher than 2,5/5 
I love you Alex Kingston, but maybe stick with acting yeah? 
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Finished 73 Yards. Now I’ve got another big pile to start on.
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Reading The Lair of the Zarbi Supremo. It’s a really long story!
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It’s probably as long as The Web Planet feels…
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I read Combat Magicks by Stephen Cole last night - wasn’t a fan of the last book I read by him (The Ancestor Cell) but this one mostly clawed it back. The plot didn’t quite stick the landing but the dynamic between Thirteen and the Fam was really nice
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Still plowing on with Judgement at Tokyo, i have to have long breaks between parts because of the heavy subject matter. It’ll be chapter 14 for me next
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Read the comic The Weeping Angels of Mons, and i have thoughts. Mostly negative. Do not understand how this has such a high score. Partially great ideas, partially good showcase of how horrible war is, partially completely incompetent piece of comic book making. Just had to yap that here before I make those thoughts coherent.
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There is the Comics > Comic Club entry for it if you you want to comment more there.
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