author: Cecelia Ahern
name: Wayne
average rating: 2.42
book published: 2014
rating: 2
read at: 2014/05/23
date added: 2014/05/23
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review:
'Doctor Who: The Bog Warrior' is part of the Time Trips series and finds the Tenth Doctor on the planet Cashel. It's a novella length story with princesses and Bog people. While I have loved a lot of other Doctor Who fiction, this one left me a little flat.
Princess Ash is invited to a masked ball where Prince Zircon is to choose a bride. The union is important in order to stop a war among two different groups of people. When Ash is forced to flee the ball, she leaves behind a shoe which the Tenth Doctor retrieves. It's at this point in the story when you realize that this story is a court intrigue story with the Cinderella story at the heart.
It's not that weaving fairy tales into Doctor Who can't work. I think the problem is there weren't many characters I cared about. Sure, the Bog People have a plight and it would seem tragic, but I just found myself reading it to finish it. I have a hard time recommending this to any but the die hard collect everything Doctor Who fan.
I was given a review copy of this ebook by Random House UK, Ebury Publishing, and Netgalley in exchage for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this book.
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