devenue complètement accro à la série Doctor Who, je nai pas pu passer à côté de ce premier tome! Javoue que je misais pas mal sur ce livre car je comptais dessus pour me faire patienter jusquaux prochains épisodes.
Malheureusement, je ressors un peu déçue de cette lecture,
Quoique un peu court, on retrouve quand même le même rythme que dans la série: aucune longueur, les actions senchainent et comme le dirait Jenny: on court très souvent.
On retrouve aussi les petites remarques humoristiques du Docteur mais cela ne suffit pas, il me manque le jeu de lacteur.
Javais beau mimaginer les scènes, jétais un peu frustrée de ne pas avoir vraiment les images, les mouvements de caméras, les mimiques des personnages.
Le style décriture y est probablement pour quelque chose car même si jai su me représenter certaines scènes, le côté parfois trop simpliste de lécriture nous empêche de réellement tout visualiser.
En soit, le thème de cet “épisode” est totalement dans la continuité de la série.
On voyage sur la lune, on a affaire à des extraterrestres, on répare le déplacement quantique et on nous parle de sandwich.
Normal. Mais encore une fois, il manque un petit quelque chose pour me faire réellement adhérer à lhistoire.
Au final, je ne pense pas continuer la saga, Je crois que la frustration de ne pas avoir les images est trop grande et le style décriture ne permet pas complètement de visualiser les scènes.
Du coup, ça ne me permet pas dintégrer totalement lhistoire et surtout de retrouver mon Docteur préféré.
"You're either very brilliant or completely mad," she told the Doctor,
"Both, actually. But veering toward the brilliant, "
An astronaut appears in a burger restaurant in a mall, A lady and her dog appear on the moon, What do these two extraordinary events have in common Incidentally, a lot, On a secret base housed in the dark side of the moon, there is a group of researchers who have no idea they are being targeted by a hostile alien force.
And it's up to the Doctor and Amy to save the day before the whole of Earth is invaded.
I basically have just come to adore anything that Justin Richards writes in terms of his Doctor Who stories.
Not only are they really well written, thought provoking, and just downright interesting and engaging storylines, but there is a deepseated love and knowledge of the characters that really shines through his work.
Everyone is completely true to character, so much so that while reading this it often felt like I was watching an episode of the series! I really enjoyed this story especially because it was action packed and also a bit creepy, which I loved.
I listened to the audio version of this book, It was read by James Albrecht and I thought he did a great job, I loved all the different voices he did, though a few of them some of the American ones seemed a little off but still I like that each character had a distinct voice.
The story itself was pretty interesting, I loved how, for the most part, the story took place on the moon, Amy and the Doctor seemed almost exactly as they are on TV, with a few things that seemed off for both of them.
All in all, this was a good addition to the DW Novels and I'd recommend it to any Whovian.
Though I've mainly encountered Justin Richards Doctor Who works through the Big Finish audios, he strikes me as the modern equivalent of Terrance Dicks.
That is that he is an ever dependable writer who will give you a solid, if not exactly groundbreaking, story.
Apollo, hisnovel which was also the first to feature Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor in prose, is just such an example.
Reading the book, it felt like a slick updating of elements from the era of Third Doctor Jon Pertwee into a more modern story with a tale of a secret American moonbase with strange happenings.
The references to stories from that era and a Troughton era story which Apolloowes a debt to helped with that feeling as well.
Indeed, I'm amazed in some ways the book got published given how much it preechoes The Impossible Astronaut/Day Of The Moon which opened the second Matt Smith season.
At a little underpages, it's also a fun, if undemanding, read as well that should delight any fan of the era.
It's a good, solid piece of Doctor Who if not the most challenging, I love Doctor Who and this book was entertaining, My only issue was that the author was writing about Houston, TX which is where I grew up and got it all wrong.
The book describes it as being the heart of Texas, dry, hot, and desert like, The only thing correct in that statement is the hot part, For some reason, he thinks that we launch NASA rockets from Texas as well, It would have been nice if he had done just a little bit of research, A quick Google search could have fixed that little problem, This was alright. It had a really promising start that just didn't really go anywhere very quickly or at all leaving the climax a little flat.
Throw in some slightly out of character actions and pretty ridiculous alien designs and the promising four start start gets dragged down to at least three.
I've kept it at three because of the cleverness of the plot as well as the Apollo nostalgia factor and some really eeries moments in the first half.
Unfortunately, these strong moments early on just aren't enough so save the lackluster ending,
The characterisation of the Doctor and Amy are sometimes fantastic, particularly in the second half.
However, in the first I can't help but feel that this was originally written with the tenth doctor in mind.
There are a few nuances that seem more fitting to Tennant's doctor than to Smith's, However, given that this would have been written before the release of the eleventh doctors debut series I think this can be forgiven.
So, a pretty average read for a Doctor Who novel really all in all.
Worth a read for fans but don't expect this one to blow your mind, Amy Pond, Doctor and Moon and yet it was just a mess,
"I've seen him working the last day, Never mind six impossible things before breakfast, he'll get through sixty and still have time to make the toast.
" I loved to watch all the peoples reactions to the doctor, especially when discussing him while he was out of earshot.
I love to see their point of view,
I also loved the first astronaut scene and the doctor realizing that the gray substance was moon dust.
I dont know why that was so amusing to me but it was,
And Oh goodness someone wrote on his psychic paper, That was hilarious. I really enjoyed this book, It was different as the aliens were basically the human's who just happened to be under control of the aliens.
The Alien's were unique and I was glad that they didn't show up until the end other wise it probably would've ruined the story.
I liked that the Doctor wasn't really sure that his plan would work, the plan he had about combining all of the stored minds in the water system did really seem that it wouldn't work.
At least that was voiced otehr wise I would've been a little annoyed, The book fit in the series with Amy and Eleven and shows just how much Amy depends, respects and have faith in the Doctor after such a short 'time' of knowing him.
Even though she's known him since she was seven, : Unlike the other book that I read with Amy amp Eleven this didn't have any refrences to where this would fit into the time line.
But this book was really good and had a nice story line that fit perfectly into the book form.
You weren't really sure what was going on until later which was interesting because the first part of the book I didn't know how alien's or what the story would continue into.
But it was a nice read, I've never read a Doctor Who novel before, but I picked this up on a lark.
I worried that it would read like some adolescent fan fiction, But instead I was wonderfully surprised, It reminded me of thes ands pulp scifi that I consumed as an adolescent.
It's quite full of the humor should I say "humour" of the new Who.
Take this description of the first time we see the moon base: "The whole thing looked like it had been made out of enormous egg boxes for some children's school project.
" Not a bad description of the special effects during the Tom Baker years, i found it rather boring, This book was so cute and fun and I loved how Matt Smith's Doctor and Karen Gillan's Amy Pond were portrayed as they are in the show.
Even when the storylines become prolonged on TV the books are the adventures that I want, with monsters and bad guys and good guys and a resolution at the end, that makes sense, not a
sequel or a two part finale.
As much as I enjoyed this read I have to give itbecause these books are consistent in quality to me and I wouldn't give them allorstars, or re read them.
I've gotten pretty lucky with my experience with the Doctor Who tiein novels and Apollo is no exception.
It's a fun adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy and Richards author did a good job of capturing the spirit of the characters.
Plus, it was cool to see a story that's partially set in the U, S. Back in the 's I was a real Doctor Who fan, gobbling up the books as fast as I could, which is odd because I'm not especially a science fiction fan.
There's just something about that enigmatic Doctor Who, . I've read one since then that was just okay, I picked this one up at a used book sale, It brought back the magic of the old Doctor Who books for me, Even though the Doctor Who books come from someone's imagination, I enjoy reading about alien life forms and other planets, galaxies, but just the soft sort of stories like Doctor Who.
Doctor Who cozies This one takes place on the dark side of the moon where there's a secret base set up from earth.
The Doctor who is theth incarnation and Amy land on earth just minutes after a spaceman walks across a busy shopping center.
Other events include a man clutching his neck and dying there too, The Doctor sees dry gray dust on the astronaut's feet and deduces that it is moon dust so away they go to land on the dark side of the moon where the people there are having problems with their quantum somethingorother link to earth.
Mostly because their minds are being taken over by aliens looking for a new body, I did wonder how the Doctor was going to get out of this one but he did.
Of course. Aliens, weird goings on, and the Doctor and Amy are smack in the middle of it.
No surprises there, and plenty of escapades, technology puzzles and general brokenness for the Doctor to fix.
The narrator does a good job of handling Matt Smith's speech patterns without the high speed drawback of MS himself, and does a decent Amy too.
It was unfortunate he had so many American accents to do, because those weren't as strong, but honestly, I didn't care as long as I knew who was talking!.