Doctor Who: Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand

author: Justin Richards

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.67

book published: 2014

rating: 4

read at: 2014/05/16

date added: 2014/05/16

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'Doctor Who: Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand' is almost a longer title than the book! It fills in the gap in the 800th (!) episode of Doctor Who, The Time Of The Doctor. In the episode, the current Doctor spends hundreds of years in a town called Christmas on the planet Trenzalore fending off whatever alien bad guys show up. We don't see most of them, but we do see that a tremendous amount of time passes as the Doctor is quite aged by the end of the episode.



This book features four novellas which occur during that unknown time. The planet has defenses, including a truth field, so the bad guys have to be quite clever, and they are. From ice meteors to seed pods to monsters that look like the Doctor and monsters who co-op the townspeople. They are all after the Doctor and the Doctor stands up against all of them.



My favorite was George Mann's 'An Apple a Day' with the aforementioned seedpods. The others are good, with the story featuring the Autons being perhaps the weakest. In all of them, I think they really got the eleventh Doctor's mannerisms, even in old age. It was a good collection, and there could be more volumes since the Doctor was on this planet for hundreds of years and faced hundreds of enemies.



I was given a review copy of this ebook by BBC Books and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.





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