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story was bound to become one of my favorites! It had so many elements working in it's favor it features my top favorite Doctorrd andth share that status for me, it is a Historical setting, set in a period that I find fascinating the break between old school and modernity, and it involves a real historic mystery even one Ive worked with myself at University.
Plus it took place in the area of London that Ive lived, Therefore, overall it had to be really bad for it to fail in my books,
For a long time it really looked like it would become my new favorite Doctor Who book, it didnt hurt the story in my world, that the alien elements apart from the Doctor took more than a third of the book to materialize.
That is just proves that Doctor Who can be so much more than scifi, But where the story took a hit in my opinion was when it turn horror in a matter of one page, Suddenly everyone was dying and in horrific ways too! It was just too much! I know that Doctor Who has always had a will to go dark with no warning, and genocide is nothing new to the universe, but this book should come with a warning IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH KZCAMPS DONT READ THIS BOOK! The inspiration from the death camps are crystal clear in this story and it comes out of nowhere! Okay not nowhere, in the historic events of Decemberpeople did die from gassing, but as a natural phenomenon, so I really didnt think the book would go there but it did BIG TIME!
Perfectly captures therd Doctor and thes era in which he existed despite this taking place in! The Third Doctor and Sarah Jane travel back tpto the East End of London where a deadly fog is about to wreak vengeance leaving thousands death.
But a picture of the Doctor and a local gangster indicates they may need to stop something even worse from what happening,

This is a tough book to rate, On one hand, the book attempts to subvert our traditional idea of the archetypes of good and evil, However, David Bishop's gray characters are themselves very archetypical, However, I think Bishop does put some real thought into these characters,so I can't dismiss the book,

The book also has some unpleasant and uncomfortable moments, but never do I think the Doctor and Sarah slip too far out of character, Astory being dark doesn't make it good, nor does it make it bad, It's a matter of a taste, Beyond subjective issues, I think the book works well, lays out its plot and takes multiple character on story arcs,

I do think the writer's approach to religion is a bit shallow, That's something that Bishop could get away with were the book less focused on the topic,

Dan Starkey's reading is superb and he shows a real talent in bringing all these characters to life with only a couple sounding like Sontarans,

Overall, I won't say it was a fun read or a fun listen, but it was wellconstructed and if you like your Doctor Who darker, this one is worth checking out.
Unrelentingly bleak, and ratchets the tension using the currency of death, popular from this era of the doctor, The crime boss character, Tommy Ramsey, is a pretty standard hard man of British crime fiction, but the book doesn't really get super dark until the less terrestrial threats make themselves known, rendering Ramsey sympathetic by comparison.
This is the point at which the book becomes savage in away I've not seen a lot of in Doctor Who, books or TV, At least the Daleks are clean and clinical, This Third Doctor adventure comes to a close with a kind of "neat bow" on top, but not until after the deaths of most of the secondary cast and a legacy of death and havoc are established.
More Xhinn please! i was surprised how violent this book was and is quite graphic When Sarah Jane Smith discovers a picture fromof the Doctor shaking hands with an East End mob boss, the two travel back in time to investigate events.
They arrive in a London on the eve of an environmental disaster and a neighborhood on the brink of a turf war, But who is organizing the homeless young men into a new gang And how is it related to the American priest whose sermons are galvanizing the community against the sin in their midst

Given the Doctor's propensity to become entangled in key moments of British history, it was probably inevitable that at some point he would make an appearance during the Great Smog of, when thousands of Londoners died as a result of air pollution concentrated by weather conditions.
And by thrusting the Third Doctor one of my favorite incarnations and Sarah Jane Smith easily the alltime best companion into a situation mixing gangsters and aliens into a historical event, the stage is set for a memorable adventure.
Yet in the end it's a mixture that doesn't quite catalyze, Perhaps this is because of the mobsters, whose involvement often distracts from the activities of the Doctor and the main threat he is addressing, Or perhaps it is the aliens Bishop creates, which prove a curious combination of power and triteness, But in the end it's a novel that doesn't live up to expectations given the elements involved and wastes a prime historical moment in the process, So i sat on this book overnight trying to figure out what i wanted to rate it, This book is ABSOLUTELY a,out of, but i couldn't figure out whether that was aor a,

and here's why,

So the book in itself, is written in a very easy to read manner, David Bishop seems to be an author that doesn't care much about deep long descriptions or convoluted storytelling and just wants to get into the meat of the story, and i can dig that, The problem here, is that the plot itself is not very good,

Right off the bat you can tell that the doctor is tired, Sarah is his companion here which was his last season in the TV show and the doctor just SEEMS tired, like he's running on fumes and it really shows, It's not the fun, exciting doc and jo we're used to, this is more of a "well, i can't save everyone, but i guess you have to save SOME people" doctor with sarah.


This is the first book i read with Sarah as well, and i have to say, i dont' really see the appeal that much, People seem to LOVE Sarah saying that she's their "favorite companion" but i don't understand why, I mean, she's FINE. She's capable and brave. That's really all she's got going on, Honestly i preferred Jo a lot more,

Without giving away too much, i'll say that this book does a COMPLETEabout halfway through, It starts off with gangsters running London doing, . gangstery things and then BAM, The book gets VIOLENT. Like, i mean grossly, Trevor Baxendale VIOLENT, It was a complete tonal whiplash and I can't say i liked it,

I don't know what came over David halfway through this book, but dang son, You need to calm down, At no point was I in LOVE with this book, but it started out fine enough, But once the twist happened, it got violent to the point of me being disgusted which doesn't happen easily,

There's a REALLY big body count in this one, which only really bothers me if it's done in a gruesome, mean spirited manner, and this was the case here,

Characters are introduced and backstories given only to unceremoniously diepages later, and this is not a one off, this happens at leasttimes,

All in all, the story was a VERY quick read, i believe i read it indays, but that doesn't make it good, Just because your writing STYLE is great, doesn't mean the substance is,

I was sitting here waffling between aand athis entire time i've been typing this review, but, since i can't give it a,, i'm going to give it a, It was just a mean spirited, depressing, no moral yeah yeah i know the title is amorality tale, gross fest,

Sorry David, I heard Empire of Death is good, but this one isn't, I love therd doctor, but This is NOT his finest moment,

.out of, rounded down to a, One of the most darkest books I have read so far! This novel was a brilliant

page turner, it only took me four days overall to read this fantastic novel!

The characters were really well characterized with some brilliant development, I found myself hating some of the gangsters in this but eventually finding myself to like them even with their flawed morality.
The Doctor and Sarah were brilliant in this really pushing them to their breaking point, The Doctor is forced to do something horrific, whilst Sarah realizes just how horrifying and deadly history can be, There was plenty of twists in this story which had me in absolute awe, A lot of horrific events are deipicted in this as well, with some of the most terrifying deaths I have ever read from a Doctor Who novel, This novel also showed how horiffic the London smog inwas with bodies piling up left right and center,

David Bishop has truly written one of the most darkest novels I have read so far and it's brilliant!/A great Jon Pertweeera tale, using a setting completely atypical for the time.
Who would have thought that a riff on "Doctor Who meets the Kray Brothers" could have worked, . .
A great read. I felt that a couple of lines in the last chapter didnt fit the story as a whole and am trying to erase them from my memory, but otherwise a very enjoyable read.
"How very English, Mary thought, Forming an orderly queue for your own death, She was sure they were all going to die, But she felt no tears, no regrets, She just couldn't bring herself to care anymore, As long as Jean and Rita survived, it didn't matter what happened to her now, Mary still cradled the lifeless body of her youngest child in her arms, Bette would always be the youngest now, never grow up, never grow any older, Frozen forever as a coughing, wheezing sixyearold, eyes uncomprehending and confused as life left her frail body, "

Amorality Tale begins as a gritty Britishs gangster tale, albeit a generic one with cardboard characters, It is a complete tonal whiplash to abruptly shoehorn in threevoiced aliens with stilted dialogue to accommodate the gimmick, clock hypnosis, zombies of inconsistent sentience, and unfunny action zingers, These ideas don't flow together two entirely different stories are cannibalising each other, competing for page space, A book this short and simple to read has no right feeling as long as this does,

The framework for this book is The Great Smog of London, which resulted in the deaths of at leastpeople and the illness of a hundred thousand more.
The setting is grim and, at times, the novel acknowledges that respectfully with powerful descriptive writing, However, extending that into outright Holocaust imagery, with genocidal aliens with no sympathy for 'savages from a backwards species' and rounding people into literal gas chambers is distasteful, at best.


Also highly questionable was the decision to have a character in all but the word itself threaten Sarah Jane Smith with rape and multiple other characters, purposefully and accidentally, leer at her in varying stages of undress.
Is this in any way tied into the theming of the story or used to advance the plot No, Not at all. It's cheap titillation at the expense of a female character, At the very least, in all but one example, it is explicitly highlighted as perverse in text, .