World Famous Comics: Doctor Who: The Many Hands (Doctor Who)
Doctor Who: The Many Hands (Doctor Who)
By: Dale Smith Publisher: Random House UK Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Random House UK Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 256 Publication Date: May 29, 2008
Product Description: The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't go near the place without an armed guard, nor why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about the minister who walked into his church twelve years after he died... It doesn't explain why, as they work, they whisper about a man called the Doctor. And about the many hands of Alexander Monro. Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.
Disappointing... While I was able to finish this book, it did not flow well. I had to trudge my way through all of it. The quotations felt forced, and the plot was just terrible. The author did seem to get the Doctor's personality correct, but there just didn't seem to be a place in the book where we could just sit back and appreciate the Doctor's quirks. Also, I don't feel like the author did a good enough job describing the setting...it was just go, go, go. I understand that was the way of the story, but it did not feel like I was there. A disappointing read.
1759 Edinburgh, Walking Corpses, the Doctor and Martha = Fast Read The Doctor and Martha arrive in 18th century Edinburgh, and of course they can't just stroll along the Royal Mile and enjoy some tea and shortbread. Within minutes of arriving, the two of them are trying to stop a runaway carriage carrying a famous American. After stopping the carriage and saving countless lives in the process, they are arrested by the castle guards for disrupting the peace and because Martha is wearing pantaloons (it is 1759 after all). Of course, the Doctor and Martha escape and get separated in the process. Martha ends up with two 18th century anatomists who have a big secret, and the Doctor ends up in a church across the loch surrounded by soldiers and the walking dead.
Of course the Doctor saves the day, and Edinburgh. The action is fast and furious, and the book is quite a page-turner. The author did a nice job writing the characters of Martha and the Doctor, I could hear Freema Agyeman and David Tennant saying the lines in my head as I was reading.
It was an interesting story that adds to the Whoniverse, and gives the Martha Jones character some interesting things to do besides mooning over the Doctor. If you are a fan of the show, and want a fun and quick read I recommend this book. However, if you are not familiar with the Doctor Who series I recommend that you give this story a pass.
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